SQL Saturday is holding its first event in Vienna on February 28, 2014. With over 20 sessions on SQL Server, the event is aimed at all those interested in SQL Server - from pros to beginners. Register while space is available.
2015-02-03
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Tracks and stores changes to database objects by reading from the default SQL server trace file using ::fn_trace_gettable()
2015-02-02
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Rumour has it that some grand old houses in the British Isles may be haunted. A SQL Server consultant spends a night in such a house musing over the use of T-SQL versus SSIS. The story is entirely fictitious and the article has been written pro bono and dedicated to the SQL Server community. For its interest, amusement and imagination.
2015-02-02
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This editorial addresses the need to write the most effective and efficient code for our solutions
2015-02-02
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SQL-based distributed Cloud Relational databases aren't new, but Amazon's Aurora offers an alternative to SQL Azure, and, being MySQL-compatible, provides the obvious route to the cloud for hosted LAMP web applications.
2015-02-02
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Putting a column name in a COUNT() function may not always give you what you are looking for.
2015-01-30 (first published: 2013-10-15)
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ETL ( Extract, transform, load) doesn't have to be like a spell on hell. To make a success of ETL systems, you need the freedom and ability to make graceful U-turns when you detect a mistake in architecture or configuration: to fix the root problem rather than to merely tackle the symptoms. Feodor lists the eight most common root causes of failure in ETL systems, and how to fix them.
2015-01-30
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Database ownership is an old topic for SQL Server pro's. Check this simple lab to learn the risks your databases can be exposed to.
2015-01-29
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In data mining, we sometimes need to perform techniques such as Z-score normalization on numeric data type columns to prevent one column from skewing or dominating the models produced by the machine learning algorithms. Dallas Snider explains how to perform this in SQL Server with T-SQL code.
2015-01-29
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If you can examine and understand execution plans, you can achieve better understanding of the database system and you will write better database code. Grant Fritchey shows you how.
2015-01-28
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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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