Big Data implementations are more than just lots of data. Of equal importance is the analytics software used to query the data. Analyzing business data using advanced analytics is common, especially in companies that already have an enterprise data warehouse. It is therefore only natural that your big data application must be integrated with the existing warehouse.
This is Orlando's 8th SQLSaturday and this year will be better than ever with more than 50 different speakers giving over 50 presentations - all for FREE. Sept 27, 2014.
Step by Step guide to setup SQL Server Agent Alert for the proactive monitoring of Monitoring of Longest Running Transactions.
Once you've done a number of SQL code-reviews, you'll be able to identify signs in the code that indicate all might not be well. These 'code smells' are coding styles that, while not bugs, suggest design problems with the code. In this PDF, Phil Factor's put together 119 of those code smells so you can see what to avoid and why.
SQL Saturday is coming to the St. Louis University Campus on Oct 11, 2014. SQL Saturday offers a full day of free SQL Server training and networking, some of the speakers at this event include Kathi Kellenberger, Stuart Ainsworth, and Abhishek Srivastava. If you're thinking of attending this event, please register while space is available.
Troy Hunt takes a look at a website whose traffic literally increased 60-fold overnight. Interesting stuff happens when scale changes that dramatically, so he decided to share a few things he learned.
The Apple fall keynote recently didn't work as planned, and it seems as though their systems weren't tested well enough.
Retrieving data from Excel, and importing it into SQL Server hasn't the same appeal or glamour as, for example, performing heroics with ill-performing queries. This could be why one hesitates before asking questions about how to do it. Rob Sheldon calms your private doubts and fears by answering those embarrassing questions.
SQL Saturday is coming to Sydney, Australia on October 25, 2014. Join us down under for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. Register while space is available.
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I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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