.NET Jon Smith in .NET Building Better Entity Framework Applications Entity Framework (EF) is Microsoft’s Object/Relational (ORM) database access library, with a new generation, EF Core, released in 2016. In... 27 March 2017 22 min read
Database DevOps Phil Factor in Database DevOps Generating Plots Automatically From PowerShell and SQL Server Using Gnuplot When you are automating a number of tasks, or performing a batch of tests, you want a way of automating... 27 March 2017 12 min read
Joshua Feierman Azure Networking for SQL Server DBAs The network is important to any DBA because so much performance is dependent on I/O, because of the importance of... 27 March 2017 15 min read
T-SQL Programming Nat Sundar in T-SQL Programming Using the DbFit Framework for Data Warehouse Regression Testing It is ironic that the users of database application need to rely on the very technologists that created the system... 08 March 2017 15 min read
T-SQL Programming Robert Sheldon in T-SQL Programming Encrypting SQL Server: Dynamic Data Masking Dynamic Data Masking is a good way of rendering data unreadable for such purposes as user-acceptance testing, or demonstrating an... 08 March 2017 15 min read
David Njoku Oracle for Absolute Beginners: Users, Synonyms, Privileges, & Roles I accidentally locked myself out of my house this evening, and so I had to climb up the wall like... 01 March 2017 11 min read
BI Saurabh Desai in BI Using an R Package within SQL Server with Real time analysis in Power BI We all know how easy it is to run R, together with dependent packages, from SQL Server on order to... 28 February 2017 14 min read
BI Nat Sundar in BI Deploying Multiple SSIS Projects via PowerShell When there are several SSIS projects with packages in a SQL Server Database or Data Warehouse development, automated deployments as... 27 February 2017 29 min read
Database Administration Joshua Feierman in Database Administration Exploring Azure Storage for SQL Server DBAs – Part 2 Managed Disks have simplified way that Azure storage interacts with the users' virtual machines, thanks to the way that it... 27 February 2017 15 min read
T-SQL Programming Phil Factor in T-SQL Programming Doing Fuzzy Searches in SQL Server A series of arguments with developers who insist that fuzzy searches or spell-checking be done within the application rather then... 23 February 2017 17 min read
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
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs String Comparisons in SQL: The Metaphone Algorithm When exploring the use of the Metaphone algorithm for fuzzy search, Phil couldn't find a SQL version of the algorithm... 14 February 2017 10 min read
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
Database Administration Robert Sheldon in Database Administration SQL Server Encryption: Always Encrypted Is 'Always Encrypted' SQL Server 2016's most widely important new feature? It is significant that 'Always Encrypted' in SQL Server... 10 February 2017 26 min read
.NET Sophia Segal in .NET User Acceptance Testing and the Application Lifecycle User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is an important part of the development process. If carried out as early as possible and... 03 February 2017 24 min read
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
