Creating a real-time IT dashboard is essential for IT professionals for managing their environments and to be proactive. A Few months ago, a great tool called ‘PowerShell Universal Dashboard’ or ‘PoshUD’ was officially released. In this article, Nicolas Prigent describes PoshUD, and how to use it to monitor your infrastructure using PowerShell.
When databases are being designed and developed, your developers might have overlooked creating clustered indexes on some of your database tables. Having a useful clustered index on your tables will improve the performance of your queries. Here Greg Larsen shows a simple script to identify those tables in your database that don’t have a clustered index.
With the GDPR in effect, Steve Jones talks about the changes that are taking place for many organizations.
R Services provides in-database analytics in SQL Server 2016. In this article we step through configuring R Services and get you started with in-database analytics.
In this article, Robert Cain describes the steps to set up a VM using PowerShell using his PSAzure module.
We’ve blogged a couple times about how clustered index key columns get stored in your nonclustered indexes.
But where they get stored is a matter of weird SQL trivia. You see, it depends on how you define your nonclustered index.
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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