Install Visual Studio 2015 in Server without Internet Connection
Install Visual Studio 2015 in Windows Server without Internet Connection
Binary Files Import and Export
Importing binary files is always a challenge in SQL Server. New Author Sergey Benner brings us a technique using bulk loading that has worked well for him.
Disable or Drop
When you need to debug or troubleshoot, Steve Jones wants you to disable, not drop, objects.
Azure DWH part 23: Data Mining
SQL Server on-premises includes a module to create Data Mining models. We will show how to create them using ASDW.
Is This Data Science?
An analysis of salaries uses statistics to determine significance of the data. Is this data science?
Free eBook: SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP
In this free ebook Kalen Delaney introduces and explains how the 2016 In-Memory OLTP engine works. The Hekaton internals knowledge offered in this book will help you migrate existing tables or databases to Hekaton, and get faster performance from your SQL Server applications than you ever thought possible.
How to Change the File Extension for a Data File
This is a fix to primary data file that is created with a different file extension or accidentally renamed to a different file extension
It's Time to Patch and Upgrade
With bugs in our CPUs, everyone needs to plan on patching or upgrading.
Nasty Fast PERCENT_RANK
Alan Burstein discusses a better performning alternative to PERCENT_RANK that works on SQL Server versions 2005+
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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