This article by Adam Aspin reviews the Azure Cosmos DB SQL API from the perspective of the relational database developer. More specifically it will show you how to leverage your Structured Query Language skills to exploit the core possibilities of Cosmos DB as a NoSQL document database.
Michael J. Swart posted an interesting question: he had a large table with 7.5 billion rows and 5 indexes. When he deleted 10 million rows, he noticed that the indexes were getting larger, not smaller.
I noticed the Lookup function in SQL Server Reporting Services. In this tip we look at all three SSRS lookup functions: Lookup, LookupSet and MultiLookup.
Bad managers are everywhere, but we can improve and help them with some ideas from other companies. That's if we, as an organization, value our staff.
Index maintenance can be a real headache for database administrators as tables grow larger and maintenance windows shrink. In this article, Greg Larsen demonstrates resumable index operations available with SQL Server 2017 and 2019. This feature helps DBAs work around those small maintenance windows by allowing certain index operations to be paused and restarted again later.
This week's poll asks about virtualization in your environment. Let us know if you are moving your SQL Server to virtual machines.
In this tip we look at how to configure Azure Data Factory to move data from an on-premises SQL Server database to an Azure SQL Database.
The biggest government hack ever occurred recently. At least until the next one happens.
Organizations may have many concerns about performance when migrating databases to Azure. Fortunately, Microsoft provides some great tools to help improve performance and save money. In this article, Monica Rathbun explains how to take advantage of these features.
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