BI Rodney Landrum in BI Scaling out SSRS on SQL Server Standard Edition The ability to scale out SSRS, so that multiple report server instances can access a single report server database, is... 14 February 2017 16 min read
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Alex Grinberg SQL Server Temporal Tables: How-To Recipes Tables that return the value of the data in the table at a particular point of time have been with... 10 February 2017 15 min read
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Database Administration Alex Grinberg in Database Administration Migrating a Disk-Based Table to a Memory-Optimized Table in SQL Server The feature formerly known as Hekaton, now In-Memory OLTP can provide very useful performance gains where you carefully select the... 26 January 2017 20 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Kadane’s solution to the Maximum Subarray problem Sometimes, you can be asked an awkward question about data that doesn't quite fit with the SQL way of thinking.... 25 January 2017 8 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Handling Graphs in SQL Many practical database problems can be tackled more simply and intuitively by graphs or networks, which in this sense are... 20 January 2017 17 min read
Oracle Aman Sharma in Oracle Understanding SQL Query Parsing – Part 3: Bind Variables and Cursor Sharing In the first and the second parts of this series, we learned what query parsing is, how hard and soft... 20 January 2017 10 min read
T-SQL Programming Robert Sheldon in T-SQL Programming Core Database Source Control Concepts Sometimes, it isn't the technicalities or details of database source control that people find difficult, but the general concepts and... 13 January 2017 30 min read
T-SQL Programming Robert Sheldon in T-SQL Programming Encrypting SQL Server: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) encrypts the data within the physical files of the database, the 'data at rest'. Without the... 12 January 2017 16 min read
BI Nat Sundar in BI Deployment Automation for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) SSIS was not originally designed with automated deployment in mind. However, any database that uses SSIS projects and their packages... 12 January 2017 16 min read
Database Administration Joshua Feierman in Database Administration Exploring Azure Storage for SQL Server DBAs If you need to run SQL Server in an Azure Virtual Machine, your choice of Azure storage will have a... 04 January 2017 14 min read
Database Administration Enrico van de Laar in Database Administration Query Store and In-Memory OLTP Once you have Query Store enabled on your databases, runtime statistics are generated for your queries; but what about the... 04 January 2017 11 min read
T-SQL Programming Robert Sheldon in T-SQL Programming Encrypting SQL Server: Using an Encryption Hierarchy to Protect Column Data SQL Server Encryption is an essential part of what is required for protecting data. Column-level encryption can be a very... 13 December 2016 15 min read
T-SQL Programming Phil Factor in T-SQL Programming Lists With, or Without, Ranges in both T-SQL and PowerShell Whether you are working in a procedural language like PowerShell or in T-SQL, there is something slightly bothersome about having... 01 December 2016 19 min read
BI Rahul Gupta in BI Reconciling Data Across Systems Using a Reconciliation Hub In many enterprises, where there are a number of separate systems engaged in processing data, there arises the daunting task... 01 December 2016 13 min read
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Database Administration Robert Sheldon in Database Administration Using Power BI Desktop to Visualize SQL Server Metadata You can easily use PowerBI Desktop to show graphically how your database is growing, which tables are taking the most... 16 November 2016 18 min read
Database DevOps Grant Fritchey in Database DevOps SQL Server Database Provisioning Database provisioning for development work isn't always easy. The better that development teams meet business demands for rapid delivery and... 04 November 2016 8 min read
