SQL Saturday #189 - Costa Rica
Join us at SQL Saturday Costa Rica on April 13, 2013 for a day of SQL Server Training and Networking.
SQL Server JOIN Hints
You, as a SQL Server data professional, are looking for ways to improve your queries. You've done the usual - avoided cursors and loops, used locks effectively, examined execution plans - what else can you tweak? Check out this tip to learn more.
Insensitivity: A Good Technique?
This article explores the place of emotion among knowledge workers doing team-based design activities.
Generating Sequence Numbers Using the Sequence Object
The new SQL Server 2012 Sequence Object can be used to generate unique numbers that can be automatically incremented based on an increment value. Greg Larsen discusses the different features of the sequence object and how you can use it to generate sequence numbers.
New Custom Metric: Long Running Job
SQL Monitor’s Job duration unusual alert is a powerful tool for keeping track of most jobs in your SQL Server environment. It works by comparing the running time of any job instance against the median for that job, and identifying when a variation in the job duration could hint at a performance problem. However, if your environment contains big jobs whose durations vary by several orders of magnitudes, it can be tricky to specify what kind of variation is expected and what would be unusual. For these cases, it is possible to go beyond the functionality of the built-in alert with a custom metric.
Development, Operations, or Accounting
Cloud services need to have a much higher quality of work than their in-house equivalents if corporations are to take them seriously according to Steve Jones.
Error logging with Bulk Insert
Bulk Insert statement has an important feature of error logging which is rarely used.
SQL Saturday #211 - Chicago
SQL Saturday is coming to Chicago, IL on April 13, 2013. Join us for a day of free SQL Server training and networking.
SQL Server 2012 Window Function Basics
For some time, Microsoft had a few window functions, but not the full set specified in the SQL 2003 standard. Now, in SQL Server 2012 we have the whole range, and extremely useful they are too. There's no longer an excuse to avoid them, particularly now you have Rob Sheldon's gentle introduction.
A Hazard of Using the SQL Merge Statement
The SQL MERGE statement can make your DML querying more efficient but you need to take care or you may get burned
Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Helps with Commit Messages
By Steve Jones
At Redgate, we’re experimenting with how AI can help developers and DBAs become better...
Startup scripts in SQL Server containers
I was messing around performing investigative work on a pod running SQL Server 2025...
Using SQL Compare with Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate recently released SQL Compare v16, which included a new feature to work with...
Forums
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Fuzzy String Search II
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Azure-SSIS, Self-Hosted Integration Runtime, & Data Gateway?
Looking to confirm my understanding of these three products and how they can be...
Question of the Day
What is Page Density
In SQL Server, there is a concept of page density. This is determined by how much data is stored on each page. What is a page density of 90%?
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