Creating Dashboards for Mobile Devices with Datazen – Part 3
With the recent acquisition of Datazen by Microsoft, if you have SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition or later with Software Assurance, you can download and use Datazen to create visually appealing dashboards for mobile devices across all the major platforms at no additional cost. In this article, Arshad Ali demonstrates creating data source, data views and then creating dashboards using them with Datazen Publisher.
Software Estimates
It seems the software industry doesn't do a good job of planning and estimating software development efforts.
Free Workshop: Microsoft Data Platform Modernisation - London, Sep 24
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Selective Updates with ASP.NET SignalR
Many developers get the misleading perception that ASP.NET SignalR merely helps to build a chat application or provides live updates of news, stock and score tickers. In reality, ASP.NET SignalR has a broader scope. In this article, Dino Esposito covers a few techniques to make selective SignalR updates to pages behind an ASP.NET authentication layer.
Email Formatted HTML Table with T-SQL
Create a professional looking HTML table from T-SQL, not SSRS.
No More Foreign Keys?
Does it make sense to avoid FKs for use other architectures in software development? Steve Jones isn't sure a a general rule this is the case.
Choosing hash distributed table vs. round-robin distributed table in Azure SQL DW Service
Designing databases to use distributed tables effectively will help you to achieve the storage and query processing benefits of the Azure SQL DW Service (SQL DW). In this article, Murshed Zaman explains the various Azure SQL Data Warehouse distributed table types, and offers guidance for choosing the type of distributed table to use and when to use it.
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