Excel spreadsheets are useful for distributing data generated by SQL Server. EPPlus is an open source .NET library that reads/writes Excel 2007/2010 files using the Open Office XML format (XLSX). It is a mature project, and plays well with SSIS.
This Friday Steve Jones asks about the market price for your skills. Do you know what it is?
Sergey Gigoyan looks at how to address the warning: Operator used tempdb to spill data during execution with spill level 1.
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that talks about SQL Server the no one's favorite topic: licensing.
Microsoft's DocumentDB is a late-entrant in the Document-oriented database field. However, it benefits from being designed from the start as a cloud service with a SQL-like language. It is intended for mobile and web applications. Its JSON document-notation is compatible with the integrated JavaScript language that drives its multi-document transaction processing via stored procedures, triggers and UDFs. Robert Sheldon investigates its SQL-like query language.
Data is more important than gut feel, or at least, Steve Jones thinks it should be more important. Today he talks about using data to support decisions.
Tim Radney of SQLskills shows how to measure your network so you have more ammo to take to your network team when there is a performance issue.
Are you a DBA tax on your company? Or an asset that's worth the cost. Steve Jones talks about trying to be the latter and not the former.
How to monitor drive space in T-SQL and calculate when your drives will run out of space.
Arshad Ali explains and demonstrates the impact of enabling the Stretch database feature on backup and restore operations. He also discusses ways to pause, resume, and disable this feature altogether when not needed.
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