But we've always done it that way…
Inspired by his visit to the battlefield of Waterloo, Grant Fritchey explains the dangers of doing things the way you've always done them and the need to challenge constantly your beliefs and understanding of how the technology you manage works.
Do It Yourself Load Balancing with SSIS
This article takes a simple look at loading data in parallel from a single data source, be it a flat file of a database
Change operating modes for SQL Server Database Mirroring
SQL Server Database Mirroring offers two methods for exchanging data: synchronously and asynchronously. Sometimes there may be a need to switch between modes for an existing mirror and in this tip we will look at how this can be done.
Dynamic Grouping in SSRS Reports
This article shows how you can create a dynamic report in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), walking you through the steps needed to create a dynamically-grouped report.
How To Keep Up with SQL Server
It can be a challenge to keep up with the rapidly evolving SQL Server platform. Andy Warren has a few ideas today.
Call for Speakers - SQL Saturday Pittsburgh
SQL Saturday #440 is coming to Pittsburgh on October 3, 2015. Now is the time to submit if you'd like to speak at the event.
SQL 2014 Clustered Columnstore Index Rebuild and Maintenance Considerations
Building (or rebuilding) a Columnstore index can be a resource intensive operation. In this article, Denzil Ribeiro describes the index rebuild process and index maintenance for clustered Columnstore indexes in SQL 2014.
Detecting Differences in Files on Servers
Detecting file differences on two different web servers using T-SQL.
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Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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