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Questions About PowerShell Basics That You Were Too Shy To Ask
Developers who are already familiar with application languages will be baffled by different aspects of PowerShell to the beginner to programming. Laerte recalls his initial struggles with PowerShell and answers those questions he wished he'd found quick answers to.
Azure SQL Database Elastic Database Jobs
In this article, Marcin Policht describes the basic functionality and implementation steps for Azure SQL Database's Elastic Database jobs.
Cloud First
SQL Server 2016 is the first cloud first version of SQL Server being released as the on-premise product.
Data Mining Part 38: Text Mining - The term lookup
In this new article, we will show how to use the SSIS term lookup transformation tool.
How to change server level collation for a SQL Server Instance
Manvendra Singh explains step by step how to change the server level collation setting for an existing SQL Server instance.
SQL Server Resource Governor
Using Resource Governor on a SQL Server that suffers from CPU contention thus allowing us specify limits on the amount of CPU that an incoming request can use.
The Practical Problems of Determining Equality and Equivalence in SQL
In theory, it is easy to determine whether data is equal to, greater than or lesser than a value. Real-world data types can be surprisingly tricky, even for gauging data equivalence. Because SQL cannot remain aloof from any application's data types, you need to be aware of the ways and pitfalls of individual datatypes and how you can test for equality, equivalence, similarity, identity and all that jazz. Joe Celko discusses.
Blogs
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Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times
Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
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Question of the Day
Increase Deadlock Detection
How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?
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