Are nulls stored in a nonclustered index?
When you index a nullable field, are the rows with nulls stored in the index? It’s easy enough to find out by creating a table with a nullable field, and then creating an index on it.
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Breaking the 4th Wall with Unity
Even when creating games, your code has access to environment variables and document files. In this article, Lance Talbert shows how to access files to convince the player that maybe the game knows more than it should.
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Create Azure Data Lake Linked Service Using Azure Data Factory
In this article we walk through a step-by-step example on how to create an Azure Data Lake Linked Service in Azure Data Factory v2.
Adding Rows in Incremental Loads - Level 3 of the Stairway to Integration Services
Learn how to incrementally load new rows into a database from an Integration Services package. MVP and SSIS guru Andy Leonard continues his series on learning SSIS.
Advanced Event Behavior – Level 10 of the Stairway to Integration Services
The tenth article of this series starts to look at more advanced events and how we can use those events to better control and enhance our packages.
Advanced Logging - Level 12 of the Stairway to Integration Services
In this level, Andy Leonard goes into advanced logging techniques for your packages.
Advanced SSIS Workflow Management – Level 8 of the Stairway to Integration Services
In Level 8 of the Stairway to SSIS we look at more advanced workflow management within a package.
Blogs
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Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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