SQL Server 2016 was been released the first of June 2016, but at the recent Connect event Microsoft announced the first service pack. Aside from numerous fixes, this service pack also comes packed with some notable enhancements for Reporting Services. Koen Verbeeck gives you an overview of these enhancements.
This article outlines five SQL Server capabilities you can use to enhance your efficiency as a DBA.
This article will walk you through a demostration on linking your DB to SubVersion with RedGate SQL Source Control.
Aaron Bertrand takes an initial look at the performance of a new function, STRING_AGG, in SQL Server v.Next CTP 1.1.
Many of our security issues come down to not patching software when there are updates available.
When deploying SQL Server in an Azure virtual machine, you can take advantage of several Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features that enhance performance of the SQL Server database engine. This article explores a couple of these enhancements, with a particular focus on increased I/O throughput facilitated by the Solid State Drive (SSD) storage available on most Azure virtual machines (VMs).
Understand how to use the SQL UNPIVOT statement and then an equivalent using XML and XPath Querying in SQL Server.
This week Steve Jones looks at hardware and the ways in which you might assemble a set of computers for building software.
Making simple mistakes in queries can have far reaching consequences.
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Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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