Editorials Kendra Little in Editorials Why You Shouldn’t Hardcode the Current Database Name in Your Views, Functions, and Stored Procedures “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things” Phil Karlton I’m terrible at naming... 12 March 2019 4 min read
Database Administration Greg Larsen in Database Administration Resumable Online Index Create and Rebuild Operations Index maintenance can be a real headache for database administrators as tables grow larger and maintenance windows shrink. In this... 05 March 2019 14 min read
T-SQL Programming Phil Factor in T-SQL Programming What are Inline Indexes? New releases of SQL Server arrive at a quick pace, and it's difficult to keep up with the many features... 26 February 2019 13 min read
Data Privacy and Protection Robert Sheldon in Data Privacy and Protection Introduction to SQL Server Security — Part 3 SQL Server supports partially contained databases. This gives you the option of adding database users with a password inside the... 25 February 2019 14 min read
BI Gogula Aryalingam in BI The BI Journey: The Expert’s Advice – Part 1 Creating a quick dashboard with a few reports may be the beginning of a BI solution, but unless time is... 20 February 2019 14 min read
T-SQL Programming Kathi Kellenberger in T-SQL Programming The Performance of Window Aggregates Revisited with SQL Server 2019 T-SQL window functions have been a fantastic addition to the T-SQL language. In this article, Kathi Kellenberger reviews how optimizations... 11 February 2019 11 min read
PowerShell Greg Moore in PowerShell Using a Server List to Control PowerShell Scripts PowerShell is the preferred tool for many DBAs when automating SQL Server administration. In this article, Greg Moore demonstrates how... 29 January 2019 13 min read
BI Gogula Aryalingam in BI The BI Journey: The Analyst Most organizations today understand the value of analysing their data. In some cases, they haven’t realized the value or are... 21 January 2019 15 min read
BI Andy Brown in BI Using the DAX Calculate and Values Functions In the first two articles in this series on creating DAX formulae, Andy Brown of Wise Owl Training showed how... 14 January 2019 20 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Empty Thoughts: Working with NULL Whether or not to have NULLable columns in a table can be a religious debate, and how missing data is... 10 January 2019 12 min read
Database Administration Greg Larsen in Database Administration Protecting SQL Server Data Using Static Data Masking In order to protect data and comply with regulations such as the GDPR and HIPAA, databases used by developers and... 07 January 2019 19 min read
Data Privacy and Protection Robert Sheldon in Data Privacy and Protection Introduction to SQL Server Security — Part 1 Security is often considered the most important of a database administrator's responsibilities. SQL Server has many powerful features for security... 31 December 2018 14 min read
BI Andy Brown in BI Creating Measures Using DAX In the first article in this series, Andy Brown demonstrated how to create calculated columns in Power BI using the... 28 December 2018 22 min read
T-SQL Programming Phil Factor in T-SQL Programming Saving Data to Various Formats, Using SQL You have many options when exporting data from a database. In this article, Phil Factor compares several methods including XML... 24 December 2018 12 min read
BI Eugene Meidinger in BI SSRS Reporting Basics: When is SSRS the Right Tool? SSRS has undergone a number of changes over the past few versions. It remains a very popular reporting tool in... 18 December 2018 11 min read
Database Administration Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman in Database Administration How to Linux for SQL Server DBAs — Part 3 DBAs running SQL Server on Linux will not only need to understand SQL Server security well, they will also need... 07 December 2018 14 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Data Quality Problems with data quality are easier and cheaper to prevent than to solve later. In this article, Joe Celko talks... 05 December 2018 11 min read
BI Robert Sheldon in BI Power BI Introduction: Visualizing SQL Server Audit Data — Part 9 SQL Server Audit is a powerful feature that can help you comply with regulations such as HIPAA and SOX, but... 29 November 2018 21 min read
T-SQL Programming Greg Larsen in T-SQL Programming There is a New COUNT in Town Now that SQL Server 2019 is on the way, it’s time to start learning about the new capabilities. In this... 29 November 2018 14 min read
T-SQL Programming Phil Factor in T-SQL Programming Transferring Data with JSON in SQL Server JSON is a viable option for transferring data between systems. It has the ability to include schema information along with... 25 November 2018 31 min read
