In this tip we look at how you can monitor Azure health to know if there are any issues that may interupt your services running on Azure.

A T-SQL Code Testing Guide

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Testing our database code is a fairly immature process for many of this, but perhaps we could build a guide that helps everyone learn to write better and more comprehensive tests.

Soundex - Experiments with SQLCLR Part 3

by David Poole

SQLServerCentral.com

SQLCLR

Acknowledging fundamental design flaws lead to a more flexible, maintainable phonetic framework

How Check Constraints MIGHT Improve Your Queries and Missing Index Requests

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Brent Ozar Blog

CHECK constraints

In theory, you get better execution plans when SQL Server understands the contents of your tables. In practice, well, it's hit or miss.

Nasty Fast N-Grams (Part 1): Character-Level Unigrams

by Alan Burstein

SQLServerCentral.com

Tally Table

An article about tally tables, N-Grams and the fastest character-level N-Grams function available today for SQL Server.

Thanksgiving 2018

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

A reminder from Steve today

Creating Calculated Columns Using DAX

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SimpleTalk

Power BI

In this article, Andy Brown shares his knowledge of how to create calculated columns in tables, using Power BI as the host software (all of the formulae shown would work equally well in PowerPivot or SSAS Tabular). This article is designed to be the first in a series of articles which will show you how to master programming in DAX.