The Technical Nuances of Technical Writing
A helpful guide to writing technical papers by focusing on the non-technical elements.
2012-10-18
5,416 reads
Articles
Exploring Semantic Search Key Term Relevance
SQL Server's 'Semantic Search' feature seemed an exciting feature when first shown. Was it really true that Microsoft had come up with a system to rival the industry-leaders, one that could extract the contextual meaning of terms in text, or automatically categorise the subject matter of text? On first inspection, it seems unlikely.
2012-10-18
2,985 reads
Report Builder 3.0: Adding Charts to Your Report
Charts are one of the commonest ways of visualizing reports from data. Report Builder provides a way of generating charts and reports that will be intuitive to anyone who has done the same in Excel. Robert Sheldon provides a simple explanation of how to get the best from charts using Report Builder.
2012-10-17
3,668 reads
2012-10-16
20,158 reads
SQL in the City - Seattle 2012
Start the week in Seattle off with a free day of training on Nov 5, 2012 with SQL in the City. Grant Fritchey, Steve Jones and more will be talking SQL Server in the Pacific Northwest. Join us and debate and discuss SQL Server the Red Gate Way.
2012-10-16 (first published: 2012-09-13)
5,790 reads
SQL Southwest, Thursday 18th Oct - User Group Meetup and Virtual Meetup
October's meeting on Thursday 18th will be a virtual meeting which means anyone in the world can attend if they have access to a PC with an internet connection. We are pleased to announce that Grant Fritchey will be giving us 2 sessions.
2012-10-16
2,431 reads
SQLServerCentral Webinar Series #21 - Forgotten Rings & Other Monitoring Stories
Most common monitoring metrics are important and useful, especially over time, but they can fall short. How do you gather information to determine, for example, if you have buffer cache pressure? Register now for the free webinar.
Wednesday, October 17 2012 4:00pm - 5:00pm BST
2012-10-15 (first published: 2012-09-20)
5,512 reads
Designing & Maintaining SQL Server Transactional Replication Environments
Microsoft IT protects against unplanned Transactional Replication outages and issues by using best practices and proactive monitoring. This results in increased stability, simplified management and improved performance of transactional replication environments.
2012-10-12
5,472 reads
Check SQL Server Virtual Log Files Using PowerShell
In a previous tip on Monitor Your SQL Server Virtual Log Files with Policy Based Management, we have seen how we can use Policy Based Management to monitor the number of virtual log files (VLFs) in our SQL Server databases. However, even with that most of the solutions I see online involve the creation of temporary tables and/or a combination of using cursors to get the total number of VLFs in a transaction log file. Is there a much easier solution?
2012-10-11
3,321 reads
SQLSaturday #153 - Salt Lake City 2012
A free one day training event in Salt Lake City, Utah on Oct 20, 2012.
2012-10-11
2,057 reads
Blogs
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...
The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
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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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