Darko Martinović Programming SQL Server with SQL Server Management Objects Framework SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) is a great tool for managing SQL Server. Darko Martinovic demonstrates how to use SMO... 09 April 2018 26 min read
Oracle Samuel Nitsche in Oracle Strongholds of Confidence: Self-Testing Your Database Unit testing and even Test-Driven Development is possible for databases. In this article Samuel Nitsche makes the case for introducing... 04 April 2018 17 min read
Database Administration Seth Delconte in Database Administration Recover Data in SQL Server AWS RDS with the Help of BACPAC With Amazon RDS, it’s easy to have a SQL Server running in minutes. There are some limitations, though. Seth Delconte... 22 March 2018 15 min read
T-SQL Programming Robert Sheldon in T-SQL Programming SQL Server Graph Databases – Part 2: Querying Data in a Graph Database Along with Graph Databases, Microsoft has introduced the new MATCH function for querying them. Robert Sheldon explains how to use... 22 March 2018 14 min read
Database Administration Prashanth Jayaram in Database Administration Mount SQL Server DMVs and Custom Queries Using DBFS on Linux With SQL Server now supported on Linux, traditional SQL Server DBAs will need to learn how to work with Linux,... 20 March 2018 14 min read
Darko Martinović An Easier Way of Transposing Query Result in SQL Server T-SQL does not have an easy way to transpose a row and a column. Of course, there is the PIVOT... 13 March 2018 17 min read
T-SQL Programming Robert Sheldon in T-SQL Programming SQL Server Graph Databases – Part 1: Introduction SQL Server 2017 now includes a new feature to represent complex relationships in data called Graph Databases. Robert Sheldon introduces... 06 March 2018 16 min read
Performance Uwe Ricken in Performance READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT ISOLATION and High version_ghost_record_count Developer shops may decide to use Read Committed Snapshot Isolation (RCSI) to reduce contention, and possibly improve performance, but it... 06 March 2018 12 min read
Database DevOps Phil Factor in Database DevOps Scripting the Description of Database Tables Using Extended Properties Stored procedures, for example, are very easy to document. The comment block at the beginning stays with the code and... 03 March 2018 28 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Charles Bachman and Pointer Chains Joe Celko reminisces about the origins of databases and one of the early pioneers, Charles Bachman. He explains how pointer... 28 February 2018 16 min read
BI Robert Sheldon in BI SQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 6: Merging Data Frames in Python In the final article in this series, Robert Sheldon demonstrates combining data sources with multiple formats into one Python data... 28 February 2018 21 min read
Oracle Nick Buytaert in Oracle Validating naming conventions in Oracle Most development teams have agreed upon some sort of naming convention as it typically increases the readability and comprehension of... 20 February 2018 8 min read
Database Administration Danny Kruge in Database Administration Changing Data Types on Large Tables: The INT to BIGINT Conundrum Changing a data type seems like a simple task unless the table is quite large and downtime must be kept... 19 February 2018 10 min read
BI Robert Sheldon in BI SQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 5: Generating Multiple Plots in Python Visualization is often the first step in analyzing data. Python makes visualization easy. In this article, Robert Sheldon demonstrates how... 07 February 2018 28 min read
Career Monica Rathbun in Career How to Survive as a Lone DBA Database administrators have enormous responsibility whether they manage one or hundreds of servers. Monica Rathbun tells us how she survived... 06 February 2018 16 min read
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T-SQL Programming Phil Factor in T-SQL Programming An Easier Way of Pivoting Data in SQL Server There are several methods to pivot, or transpose, data in T-SQL, but most are difficult to understand and write. Phil... 16 January 2018 16 min read
BI Robert Sheldon in BI SQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 4: Finding Data Anomalies with Python Python is widely used to analyze data. One such use is to find anomalies or outliers. In this article, Robert... 16 January 2018 16 min read
BI Robert Cain in BI Mobile Report Publisher – Dashboards Everywhere The new feature, Mobile Reports, was added to SSRS in 2016. It provides the ability to create attractive and useful... 11 January 2018 24 min read
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