The Desktop Setup
This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you set up your hardware and software environment for work. Are there things you recommend?
This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you set up your hardware and software environment for work. Are there things you recommend?
This is a very simple script can be used as a framework for you to stop and start your VM’s on Azure with Powershell.
Steve Jones is taking a sabbatical this year and has a few thoughts on what this means for his career.
Windows Azure Tables are intended for the storage of large amounts of schemaless data. Tables are just containers of rows of data. Mike Wood describes the practicalities of getting started with using the system.
SQL Server may not be the best solution for every problem, but we have the means to extend its capabilities by linking it to external resources; in this case, using SQLCLR to query a graph database.
The holiday time period isn't always a fun time for IT pros who can get stuck working more than usual. Steve Jones talks about some of the experiences he's had.
This article describes how to use the new wizards in SQL Server Management studio to get access to Windows Azure and then create and configure your VM.
Paul Brewer talks about an AlwaysOn problem affecting the Service Broker Transmission Queue.
Graph database are an intriguing alternative to the relational model. They apply graph theory to record the relationships between entries more naturally, and are a good fit for a range of data tasks that are difficult in SQL. Buck Woody gives an introduction to Graph databases and shows how to get Neo4J up and running to get familiar with the technology.
When you need to find all the related rows and tables to a parent table, here's one way you might approach the problem.
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I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
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I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
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I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers