Tracking Professional Athletes
Today Steve Jones looks at the use of tracking sensors to gather spatial data on professional athletes for later analysis.
SQL Server 2016 : Availability Group Enhancements
Aaron Bertrand reveals details about the changes to Availability Groups that will ship in the next major version: SQL Server 2016.
Comparison of SQL Server Serializable and Snapshot isolation levels
Both Serializable and Snapshot isolation levels exclude concurrency issues such as Dirty Reads, Non-repeatable Reads and Phantoms. However the way in which they deal with such issues is quite different. In this article, Sergey Gigoyan explains the main differences between the two.
SQL Family Feud Survey - Technical questions
The first 100 people get to decide the data set. Give us the first thing you think of.
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How can you fix a .NET Framework 3.5 error while installing SQL Server 2014?
Declarative SQL: Using References
There are several ingenious ways of using SQL References to enforce integrity declaratively. Declarative Referential Integrity (DRI) is more effective than using procedural code in triggers, procedures or application layers because it uses the SQL paradigm, thereby making optimisation easier and providing clearer expression of the rules underlying the data. Joe Celko explains.
Top 10 MySQL Reporting Tools
Both management and various departments rely on data reports to help guide their business decisions. Rob Gravelle presents ten open source and commercial report generation tools for MySQL and other relational databases.
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Redgate and Rome
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I’m at the UK Redgate office today, meeting with senior leaders in all areas...
Quick Tip: Check Most DTU Expensive Queries in Azure SQL Database
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PowerShell Newbie – Variables
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This is Week 2 of PowerShell Strikes Back – a four-week May series for...
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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