Should the Data Lake be Immutable?
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Getting Approximate Count in Microsoft SQL Server
Sometimes performance is more important than exact accuracy. Learn how to get an approximate count in SQL Server with better performance.
Dealing with Ugly Babies
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The Employee Target
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Introduction to SQL Server Security — Part 2
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What is the Best Value for Fill Factor in SQL Server
Learn about how selecting a SQL Server index fill factor can impact storage and performance. Check out the included scripts to help give you better insight.
A Good Benefit?
A company is letting companies trade vacation for payments against student loan debt.
Using SQL Server and R Services for analyzing DBA Tasks
Article shows how R Services can help database administrators with their daily work
An Introduction to GitHub for DBAs
Distributed source control is really intimidating: branches, pull requests, merges – will somebody just take my code, for crying out loud? Why does it have to be so complicated and involved?
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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