Join the world's largest gathering of SQL Server and BI professionals in Seattle on November 4-7. PASS Summit is your conference – planned by and for the SQL Server community. Red Gate will be exhibiting, so drop by their booth and say hello. Register while space is available.
Greg Larsen shows you a number of different ways to use the UPDATE statement to modify the data in your SQL Server tables.
This week Steve wants to know if you'd have some issues when analyzing data and you've mistaken correlation for causation.
With the Konesans File Watcher Task for SSIS we can import files as soon as they arrive.
With the release of SQL Server 2014 there came a lot of new features, including “In-Memory OLTP”. One would assume that storing a table in memory would most definitely be faster than using the conventional disk-based table storage engine. But just how much faster is it?
It seems as though Microsoft might be moving to a Continuous Delivery process for Windows 10. Steve Jones isn't sure that's a good thing, but it is interesting.
The public perception is that, when something is deleted, it no longer exists. Often that's not really the case; the data you serve up to the cloud can be stored out there indefinitely, no matter how hard to try to delete it. Rob Sheldon investigates, and finds the cloud a worryingly public place.
SQL Saturday is coming to Portland on November 1! Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. Speakers at this event include Red Gate's Grant Fritchey, Kathi Kellenberger, Benjamin Nevarez, and more. There are also 3 paid-for pre-con sessions for this event. Register while space is available.
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Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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