What to Read in 2018
Steve loves to read all sorts of books and is asking what books you'd read professionally or for fun in 2018.
Azure Cosmos DB Consistency Levels
The majority of traditional database management systems are responsible for making sure that any changes to their data are consistently reflected in the results of subsequent queries. Azure Cosmos DB extends the range of consistency options by providing support for bounded-staleness, session, and consistent prefix models.
Adaptive Query Processing – Interleaved Execution
Interleaved Execution allows SQL Server's query optimizer to get accurate cardinality estimates in places where it couldn't before.
Mobile Report Publisher – Dashboards Everywhere
The new feature, Mobile Reports, was added to SSRS in 2016. It provides the ability to create attractive and useful dashboards that can run on devices and most browsers. Robert Cain shows you how to get started building Mobile Reports with the Mobile Report Publisher.
Heaps, Deletes, and Optimistic Isolation Levels
Erik shows that heaps have even more drawbacks under optimistic concurrency.
Influence the Program
You have the opportunity to influence the makeup of the conference agenda for the PASS Summit
SSIS Package with a Derived Column
I created this article to demonstrate the use of derived columns inside a ForEachLoop Container for a client requirement for some auxiliary marketing reports. I found the Data Conversion tool useful to escape the problem of mismatched data types, which is an issue with versions of Microsoft SSIS.
Building a Custom Blocked Process Report
Blocking in SQL Server is normal behavior, but excessive blocking can lead to many complaints and is a symptom of poor performance. SQL Server contains a vast amount of information that can help when troubleshooting performance issues like blocking, but understanding and gathering that information when you need it is a lot of work. Darko Martinovic explains his solution for a custom blocking report.
Configure Read Only Routing
The advantage of Setting the readable secondary as Read-Intent Only will allow the secondary server to serve the read-only workload only if the connection string of the application contains Application Intent=Readonly parameter.
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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