Properly Persisted Computed Columns
Paul White walks through a new trace flag in SQL Server 2016 designed to yield better execution plans (and performance) for queries involving computed columns.
Statistics in SQL: Kendall’s Tau rank correlation
Statistical calculations in SQL are often perfectly easy to do. SQL was designed to be a natural fit for calculating correlation, regression and variance on large quantities of data. It just isn't always immediately obvious how. In the second of a series of articles, Phil factor shows how calculating a non-parametric correlation via Kendall's Tau or Spearman's Rho can be stress-free.
DevOps Can Help
DevOps can help, not just development, but also infrastructure, if you spend time adapting the practices to your environment.
Help for DBAs Who Support SSIS…
SSIS Catalog Compare helps DBAs work with their SSIS project configurations and catalogs, deploying changes from environment to environment.
Scoring Outliers with R
What is normal? More to the point, what is abnormal? We will look at using R to score outliers in a typical monitoring dataset.
Your Job Description
This Friday Steve Jones talks about job posting and descriptions. This is the chance to think about what you do and how you might describe this to your replacement.
Use T-SQL to Find Folders Using the Most Disk Space
Your SQL Server drives are running out of disk space and you want a way to quickly tell which sub-directories are taking the most space - here's how to do it with T-SQL.
Securing the Things
The Internet of Things is coming, and bringing lots of data, but security needs to be included as well.
Blogs
Scaling PowerShell – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
Recently, I was in a technical interview where the topic of running PowerShell at...
Installing Old Versions of PowerShell Modules with Their Dependencies
By alevyinroc
I don’t recall where this came up (probably in SQLSlack), but I had a...
In Memory of Andrew Clarke, AKA Phil Factor
By Steve Jones
One of the parts of getting older that really sucks is I seem to...
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Question of the Day
SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation
A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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