The Copy Cat Poll

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.

Writing Better T-SQL: Top-Down Design May Not be the Best Choice

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.

Writing Better T-SQL: Top-Down Design May Not be the Best Choice

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.

Writing Better T-SQL: Top-Down Design May Not be the Best Choice – Part II

A second part to the series by Mickey Stuewe on writing better T-SQL looks at some of the issues of using views in a complex query.

Writing Better T-SQL: Top-Down Design May Not be the Best Choice – Part II

A second part to the series by Mickey Stuewe on writing better T-SQL looks at some of the issues of using views in a complex query.

Master Data Management (MDM) Using SQL Server

So many of the problems that organisations have with their IT applications are due to the struggle with data, in the absence of overall organization-wide control and supervision of data and its progress through the various parts of the organization. Master data management (MDM) offers a solution to the many data woes by controlling data change, It does it in an analogous way to Version Control, so that changes are cleansed, checked, tracked and audited, and any named version can be published to other services. Now Microsoft has an implementation as part of the data platform.

Get-SqlLogin and Remove-SqlLogin Are Here

Learn how to use the login commands included with SSMS2016 from PowerShell.

Time Off

Finding a balance between work and life away from work is hard, but one good way is with periodic vacations. Today Steve Jones notes that some people don't take their vacation, which he sees as a problem.

New Drop If Exists Syntax in SQL Server 2016

When writing T-SQL code, we often write code to check if the database object exists first and then take some action. In this tip John Miner covers the new and easier way to do this in SQL Server 2016.

Byte Me: Data Wrangler