Practicing Deployments
Amateurs practice until they can get something right. Professionals practice until they don't get things wrong. How should we handle our deployments?
Amateurs practice until they can get something right. Professionals practice until they don't get things wrong. How should we handle our deployments?
In many cases Azure SQL Database offers an economically and functionally viable alternative to SQL Server deployments. However, there are also scenarios where we might discover that rather than serving as a replacement, it provides synergy, working side by side with your on-premises databases. One of technologies that illustrate this paradigm is Stretch Database, introduced in SQL Server 2016. Marcin Polichtdescribes its basic characteristics and reviews its implementation steps in this article.
In this post, I’m going to talk an issue that I found when creating an availability group listener by using SQL Server Management Studio's Add Listener. This article helps you to resolve the issue.
Aaron Bertrand continues his series on widening an IDENTITY column, showing how he would attack the problem directly.
When accepting an offer of employment, what do you do about NCAs and NDAs that you might be asked to sign? Steve Jones offers some advice. (This editorial was originally published on Mar 12, 2008. It is being re-run as Steve is on holiday.)
Phil Factor argues that with both SQL Server and PowerShell now running on Linux, the latter becomes increasingly important in achieving the goal of a single management stack for databases across all hosting environments.
If all your application testing is done by test experts, who know how to record images, do screen-capture, write issue-reports to TFS more appropriate and consistent format and so on, you probably don't need the 'Exploratory Testing' chrome plug-in. Otherwise, it is worth checking out Ambily KK's walkthrough.
There are no more excuses for not having baseline data. This article introduces a comprehensive Free Baseline Collector Solution
This poll asks about copies, specifically those of your databases. How many do you keep around? How much extra storage does this cost? Steve Jones thinks that most organizations have quite a few copies, which can use a lot of resources.
One of the best ways in which you can build better applications is by learning to write better T-SQL. Mickey Stuewe begins a new series showing how you might start to think about writing queries.
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Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Tightly Linked View
I try to run this code on SQL Server 2022. All the objects exist in the database.
CREATE OR ALTER VIEW OrderShipping AS SELECT cl.CityNameID, cl.CityName, o.OrderID, o.Customer, o.OrderDate, o.CustomerID, o.cityId FROM dbo.CityList AS cl INNER JOIN dbo.[Order] AS o ON o.cityId = cl.CityNameID GO CREATE OR ALTER FUNCTION GetShipCityForOrder ( @OrderID INT ) RETURNS VARCHAR(50) WITH SCHEMABINDING AS BEGIN DECLARE @city VARCHAR(50); SELECT @city = os.CityName FROM dbo.OrderShipping AS os WHERE os.OrderID = @OrderID; RETURN @city; END; goWhat is the result? See possible answers