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Configuring Integration Services in a SQL Server 2016 Cluster

In this post I will show a procedure to configure Integration Services in a SQL Server 2016 Cluster.

Monitor All the Changes

Today Steve Jones looks at the potential downfalls of monitoring every change without lots of filtering.

Why Would I Ever Need to Partition My Big ‘Raw’ Data?

Whether you are running an RDBMS, or a Big Data system, it is important to consider your data-partitioning strategy. As the volume of data grows, so it becomes increasingly important to match the way you partition your data to the way it is queried, to allow 'pruning' optimisation. When you have huge imports of data to consider, it can get complicated. Bartosz explains how to get things right; not perfect but wisely.

Service Broker Error Handling

How to handle errors raised during Service Broker Queue Processing.

What is Normal?

Phil Factor on the virtues of "over normalizing"

Wow. Just Wow

Today Steve Jones looks at the loss of a database backup on a public website.

Implementing a custom sort

Rob Farley discusses some solutions and gotchas for implementing a custom sort using ORDER BY in T-SQL queries.

Share the Interesting Work

Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at how we might divvy up our workload in a company.

How to Start Big Data with Apache Spark

It is worth getting familiar with Apache Spark because it a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing and you can use you existing SQL skills to get going with analysis of the type and volume of semi-structured data that would be awkward for a relational database. With an IDE such as Databricks you can very quickly get hands-on experience with an interesting technology.