Performance Myths: Table variables are always in-memory
Guest author Derik Hammer dismisses the common myth that table variables perform better than temp tables because they are always in memory.
AlwaysON Availability Group and Jobs Part 1
In this article (consist from 2 parts) , I will be focusing on one of the practical solutions for management of internal SQL Server jobs in AlwaysOn Availability Groups scenarios.
SQL Data Mask: now featuring configurable masks
SQL Data Mask is the latest prototype to come out of Redgate Foundry. It copies your database while anonymizing personal data, and you can use it to mask your databases right now, free of charge. Here are the details.
Three Days and a Notebook
Steve Jones is off to Seattle for the rest of the week attending Microsoft Build 2017.
Basic data masking for development work using SQL Clone and SQL Data Generator
This article describes a lightweight copy-and-generate approach for making a sanitized version of a production database available to development teams with SQL Clone and SQL Data Generator.
Deploying Multiple SSIS Projects via PowerShell
When there are several SSIS projects with packages in a SQL Server Database or Data Warehouse development, automated deployments as part of Continuous Integration can get tricky. Nat Sundar describes how he created a Deployment script that is intended to provision a Data Warehouse for System Integrated testing (SIT).
Azure Machine Learning - Your first experiment
In this chapter, we will show how to create a Machine Learning experiment from our Azure SQL Warehouse.
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A New Word: Dorgone
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SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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