Installing SQL Server vNext on an AWS EC2 RHEL Instance
The steps required to create an Amazon Web Services EC2 instance and install the latest SQL Server version on the EC2.
How to Find Queries Using an Index (and Queries Using Index Hints)
Sometimes you know a query is out there, but it’s hard to find the exact query. In this post, Kendra Little gives example code to find queries using a specific index, or using an index hint.
DevOps Isn't Perfect
Mistakes will still be made with a DevOps process, but the benefits outweigh the mistakes.
Enable Trace Flags in SQL Server
Learn how to enable trace flags to change the behavior of your SQL Server instance.
Deployment Automation for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
SSIS was not originally designed with automated deployment in mind. However, any database that uses SSIS projects and their packages needs a way of scripting the deployment of them if the database is to be deployed rapidly, or via a build server. Nat Sundar shows a technique that can be extended to manage the scripted deployment of SSIS projects.
Adding Years, Months and Days
Adding Years, Months and Days to Years, Months and Days, with Bonus UK Public Holiday calculation.
Managing Azure SQL Database Recovery
Azure SQL Database offers several benefits, built into the underlying cloud infrastructure, that leverage resiliency and redundancy. You can take advantage of this functionality to facilitate failover and failback in response to events that affect availability of an Azure region.
Blogs
Understanding Fabric Ontology
By James Serra
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
When growing companies outgrow Excel
By ChrisJenkins
There are some telltale signs that your growing business has outgrown Excel for your...
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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