Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Is It Time To Stop Using IsNumeric()? The old system function IsNumeric() often causes exasperation to a developer who is unfamiliar with the quirks of Transact SQL.... 23 June 2017 12 min read
Database DevOps William Brewer in Database DevOps Database Code Analysis Database code analysis will reduce the number of 'code smells' that creep into your database builds. It will alert the... 20 June 2017 12 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs SQL 2017 new DMF: Managing VLOGs in our databases SQL Server 2017 brings to us some new interesting DMV’s and DMF’s, one of them is sys.dm_db_log_info. This new DMF... 20 June 2017 4 min read
BI Robert Sheldon in BI SQL Server R Services: The Basics It is possible to do a great deal with R within SQL Server, but it is best to start by... 19 June 2017 18 min read
BI Amarendra Reddy Thummeti in BI Developing Metadata Design Patterns in BIML You may have already experienced ETL Hell, where you have a large number of similar of SSIS tasks, and a... 06 June 2017 22 min read
Database Administration Dennes Torres in Database Administration Query Store and Parameterization Problems The query store gives us a novel way of identifying those queries that are causing performance problems when they are... 06 June 2017 25 min read
T-SQL Programming Robert Sheldon in T-SQL Programming The Basics of Good T-SQL Coding Style – Part 2: Defining Database Objects Technical debt is a real problem in database development, where corners have been cut in the rush to keep to... 02 June 2017 22 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs News for Differential Backup SQL Server 2017 brings several improvements to us. Sometimes a simple new field in a DMV can turn possible interesting... 02 June 2017 4 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Statistics in SQL: The Kruskal–Wallis Test Before you report your conclusions about your data, have you checked whether your 'actionable' figures occurred by chance? The Kruskal-Wallis... 01 June 2017 4 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Simultaneous Auto-growth in Multiple Files SQL Server 2016 has a new configuration to control the auto-growth of multiple files in the same filegroup. When we... 27 May 2017 4 min read
Phil Factor SQL Server User-Defined Functions User-Defined Functions (UDFs) are an essential part of the database developers' armoury. They are extraordinarily versatile, but just because you... 23 May 2017 26 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Simple SQL: Attribute Splitting If the design of a relational database is wrong, no amount of clever DML SQL will make it work well.... 23 May 2017 11 min read
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T-SQL Programming Phil Factor in T-SQL Programming Visual Checks on How Data is Distributed in SQL Server There are many reasons for wanting to know how data is distributed. Sometimes you just want a rough idea of... 05 May 2017 12 min read
T-SQL Programming Robert Sheldon in T-SQL Programming The Basics of Good T-SQL Coding Style TSQL Code must work properly and efficiently. That's not enough though. Unless you are working alone, have perfect memory and... 05 May 2017 20 min read
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Blogs William Brewer in Blogs Generating HTML from SQL Server Queries You can produce HTML from SQL because SQL Server has built-in support for outputting XML, and HTML is best understood... 21 April 2017 11 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Statistics in SQL: Simple Linear Regressions Although linear regressions can get complicated, most jobs involving the plotting of a trendline are easy. Simple Linear Regression is... 13 April 2017 4 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Statistics in SQL: Kendall’s Tau Rank Correlation Statistical calculations in SQL are often perfectly easy to do. SQL was designed to be a natural fit for calculating... 10 April 2017 6 min read
T-SQL Programming Robert Sheldon in T-SQL Programming Questions About SQL Server Collations You Were Too Shy to Ask Of course we all like our colleagues to think that we know everything there is to know about SQL Server... 06 April 2017 29 min read
