The Traveling Data Professional

This week Steve Jones talks about the need to get away and asks if you have plans.

Getting Started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Part 5

In part 5 of this series covering Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Arshad Ali looks at performance optimization.

Where's the Ops in DevOps? Part 1

In the first of a three-part series, guest bloggers from DevOpsGuys look at the real role of Ops in DevOps. Where it changes, how it changes, and why Ops...

Backup Plans for Data Loss

Today Steve Jones discusses data loss, always a scary topic for the data professional.

How to Decipher sysschedules

Take the mystery out of sysschedules and interpret the data into a plain text format.

SQL Server Row Count for all Tables in a Database

Dattatrey Sindol explains the different ways in which you can get the row counts from all the tables in a SQL Server database.

Statistics in SQL: Simple Linear Regressions

Although linear regressions can get complicated, most jobs involving the plotting of a trendline are easy. Simple Linear Regression is handy for the SQL Programmer in making a prediction of a linear trend and giving a figure for the level probability for the prediction, and what is more, they are easy to do with the aggregation that is built into SQL.

Byte Me: Killer Conference

SQL Azure Reporting Automation

This article will talk about preparing a runbook in Azure to schedule the report of space usage of databases in Azure environment

Dealing with High Concurrency with Table Hints

Systems with a large number of requests on a critical database table are prone to blocking and slowness. We take a look at getting things done using T-SQL table hints.