The Best Programmers
How do keep the best programmers? Steve Jones has a few thoughts that might cause you to rethink how you manage your programming stars.
Attention users running SQL Server 2008 & 2008 R2!
Updates to the latest CUs for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 from Aaron Bertrand.
Managing Slowly Changing Dimension with MERGE Statement in SQL Server
Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) Transformation is a quick and easy way to manage smaller slowly changing dimensions but it has several limitations and does not perform well when the number of rows or columns gets larger. Arshad Ali explores some of the alternatives you can use for managing larger slowly changing dimensions.
PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter presents Steve Simon
On Thursday June 20 at 12 noon Central time, Steve Simon will discuss the challenges of designing financial warehouses.
Losing Data
As data professionals, we want to avoid losing data. We won't always be successful, but we can avoid making the easy mistakes.
PowerShell vs GUI Availability Group Rebuild
Windows Cluster\SQL Availability Group rebuild times comparison - Management Studio & Cluster Manager Vs PowerShell Commands
Trust
Why does the IT industry seem to act and run so differently than many other industries? Steve Jones takes a stab at explaining this.
Getting Started with the SSAS Tabular Model
SSAS Tabular models are in-memory databases that model data with relational constructs such as tables and relationships, in order to provide a rapid and powerful way of providing self-service BI to client applications such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Power View. You’ve deployed SSAS in tabular mode, and deployed Adventureworks into it. What next? Rob Sheldon explains all.
SQL Saturday #229 - Dublin
SQL Saturday Dublin is hosting a two-day training event covering SQL Server 2012, Business Intelligence, Database Administration and Personal Development. The free training event will be Saturday June 22 2013, and three preconference sessions (not free) will take place the 21st.
Custom Sequence Numbering
This article shows how to implement low cost custom sequence numbering logic via a cunning use of the the ROW_NUMBER() function
Blogs
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
Forums
Inquiry – Enforcing ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly via GPO
Hello, I would like to ask whether it is technically possible to redirect a...
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