How to Do a Free SQL Server Health Check
Brent Ozar shares a free script that that you can run to quickly produce a health check of your SQL Server.
Dynamically Create Warehouse Dimensions
Here's a data warehouse design pattern to speed up multi-value dimension creation.
Microservices in SQL Server
In SQL Server 2017 consuming or providing JSON data is so efficient that you can implement effective microservices right from the database, argues Phil Factor.
Missing Data
In the real world of business or scientific reporting and analysis, data can prove to be awkward. It can be plain wrong or it can be altogether missing. Sure, we have the NULL to signify unknown, but that doesn't play well with regular business reporting. There are a number of ways of dealing with missing information, and methods of estimating data from existing data has a long and respectable history. Joe Celko gets to grips with a data topic that is often treated with some trepidation.
Advanced Analytics with R & SQL: Part I - R Distributions
Build and Operationalize scalable Predictive models and intelligent applications using SQL and R.
How Long Before You Upgrade?
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know about the lifetime of your instances. Do you have some idea on how long you'll run a particular version of a platform?
Mixing MongoDB and Relational Databases in the Enterprise
Your Agile developers want MongoDB, or a similar document database: your Ops people are concerned about security and backup, and Governance are muttering about transactionality and data transfer between systems. Do you restrict your developers from rapidly-evolving the data design for their domain or do you embrace the joys of NoSQL unconditionally? If you accept a polyglot database environment, where the NoSQL lambs coexist with the relational lions, how do you provide tools and common database concepts that everyone can use and understand?
Change Integer to BigInt on a Very Large Table
This article will show how to change the data type of a column when the table contains more than 1 billion records.
Introverted vs Extroverted
A lot of us are introverted, so is there anything that can be done about it?
Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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