The Ideal Agile Database
The ideal Agile database needs to be secure, recoverable, transactional, resilient, and versatile enough to allow easy migration paths when you need to delegate tasks elsewhere, for scalability. Sounds like a relational database to Phil Factor.
Migrating a Disk-Based Table to a Memory-Optimized Table in SQL Server
The feature formerly known as Hekaton, now In-Memory OLTP can provide very useful performance gains where you carefully select the tables to become memory-optimised. How do you set about the job of converting existing tables to become memory-optimised tables? the process isn't entirely straightforward but the benefits that an In-Memory OLTP table delivers is worth your effort. Alex Grinberg takes you through the basics.
A Single-Parameter Date Range in SQL Server Reporting Services
Many reports you will generate in SSRS will need to report within date ranges, and most of those will need a date range parameter. Here's an way to make an easy-to-use date range parameter.
Working with Windows Containers and Docker: The Basics
When you begin to work with containers, you will notice many similarities between a container and a virtual machine; but, in fact, these are two quite different concepts. Containers are going to change the way that we do Windows-based development work in the coming year, and they already underpin much of the devops work of speeding the delivery process. Nicolas Prigent explains how to use the Windows Containers feature.
Performing a Right and Comprehensive Age Calculation Part 2
Age Calculation gets implemented as an Inline table Valued function with a parameter defining which date parts must be counted.
What's New in Master Data Services MDS 2016 - Part 1
SQL Server 2016 introduced many new features and improvements for all its products, and Master Data Services (MDS) is no exception. In this post, Koen Verbeeck gives a comprehensive overview of all the new MDS features.
Big Companies are Improving with DevOps
Steve Jones notes that not just the small, startup, agile companies use DevOps. Nor is it just technology companies.
Justify the Remote access requirement for Biztalk Log Shipping
This article will show why there is a need for remote access with a Biztalk server that uses log shipping.
Handling Graphs in SQL
Many practical database problems can be tackled more simply and intuitively by graphs or networks, which in this sense are graphs in which attributes can be associated with the nodes and edges. It is a natural way to study relationships within the data. SQL databases aren't the easiest way of doing it, but it makes sense where the scale permits it. Because of the range of graphs and techniques, some Graph theory is unavoidable before you get stuck into the code, and who better to introduce graph databases than Joe Celko?
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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