SQL and T-SQL for Beginners in 229 minutes
The the basics of SQL and T-SQL in this short course of videos that explain some of the concepts.
Key findings from the State of SQL Server Monitoring
Microsoft MVP Grant Fritchey provides an insight into the key findings from the report; what is the biggest challenge facing database professionals this year? How are estates changing? And what technologies are being used across the industry? Read Grant’s blog to find out.
SQL Server and Excel Hierarchyid Example for Organization Charts
In this tip we look at how to build a hierarchy chart using the SQL Server hierarchyid data type and Excel to format the chart.
Politics makes for bad databases - plus calculate British holidays
In this piece, learn about changes in UK holidays and get a script to calculate them.
Ransomware and DevOps
Ransomware is becoming a bigger and bigger problem. Steve has some thoughts on how you should think about security in your database environment.
10 steps you can take to be compliant worldwide – free whitepaper
Learn how data protection legislation is changing around the world and the 10 steps database teams can take to ensure compliance and defend against data breaches.
Reporting Services Basics: Understanding Data Sources and Datasets
Data sources and datasets are critical components of an SSRS report, but many people new to SSRS struggle to understand them. In this article, Kathi Kellenberger shows you how to create these components and explains when they should be shared vs. embedded.
Azure DWH part 20: Create External and Internal tables As Select
CTAS and CETAS are very important T-SQL features in ASDW. These features allow to create a table and fill with data based on a query.
4 Ways to Move Data Into a Reporting Server
You’ve decided that you need to offload reports to a different SQL Server, and you’re willing to pay the costs. Here are the most common ways to move the data from production to a reporting server, arranged roughly from easiest-to-implement to hardest.
Blogs
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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