Feodor Georgiev Curing Data-Obesity in OLTP Databases OLTP databases work best when data that becomes no longer current is then transferred to a separate database for analysis... 06 February 2015 13 min read
Jonathan Watts The Promise – and the Pitfalls – of In-Memory OLTP When SQL Server 2014 was released, it included Hekaton, Microsoft's much talked about memory-optimized engine that brings In-Memory OLTP into... 04 February 2015 7 min read
Michael K Campbell The Importance of Caching Performance tuning and optimization definitely have their place in minimizing SQL Server Licensing costs - by helping keep CPU utilization... 04 February 2015 15 min read
Dennes Torres Centralize Your Database Monitoring Process SQL Server Data Collector, together with Management Data Warehouse, is a fine and useful component for gathering information centrally about... 26 January 2015 17 min read
Dwain Camps Bowled Over by SQL Window Functions What better way to learn how to construct complex CHECK CONSTRAINTs, use the SQL 2012 window frame capability of the... 26 January 2015 27 min read
Robert Sheldon Questions About T-SQL Control-of-Flow Language You Were Too Shy to Ask Surely, we all know how T-SQL Control-of-flow language works? In fact it is surprisingly easy to get caught out. What,... 26 January 2015 29 min read
Phil Factor A Start with Automating Database Configuration Management For a number of reasons, it pays to have the up-to-date source of all the databases and servers that you're... 16 January 2015 24 min read
Grant Fritchey Why Developers Need to Understand Execution Plans As a coder, the more you know about the business, the better code you're going to write. The more you... 12 January 2015 30 min read
Feodor Georgiev How to get ETL Horribly Wrong ETL ( Extract, transform, load) doesn't have to be like a spell on hell. To make a success of ETL... 09 January 2015 14 min read
Kathi Kellenberger SQL Server Reporting Services Basics: Deploying Reports Having designed and tested our reports, it's time to deploy them to the Report Server, so that our users can... 06 January 2015 20 min read
Joe Celko Discrete and Continuous data in SQL Not all data is discrete; some data types represent a continuum. In SQL, we have to approximate them and live... 06 January 2015 17 min read
Robert Sheldon Questions About Pivoting Data in SQL Server You Were Too Shy to Ask Of all the basic SQL operations, the pivot seems to cause the most problems. We can tell from the way... 01 January 2015 30 min read
Feodor Georgiev Data Cleaning in SQL 2012 with Data Quality Services For data to be usefully analyzed, it must be consistent, accurate, and trustworthy. When incoming data is non-uniform, duplicated records... 31 December 2014 11 min read
Dennes Torres Exploring Query Plans in SQL SQL Server keeps the most-used execution plans in cache, so it doesn't need to recompile the same queries every time.... 31 December 2014 15 min read
Dwain Camps Archiving Hierarchical, Deleted Transactions Using XML When you delete a business transaction from the database, there are times when you might want to keep a record... 30 December 2014 18 min read
Joshua Feierman High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Small Businesses Too often in the past , High Availability and Disaster Recovery have been marketed as expensive choices for businesses with... 16 December 2014 13 min read
Robert Sheldon Questions About T-SQL Transaction Isolation Levels You Were Too Shy to Ask Every time you access a relational database to make a query, you have an important decision to make: What is... 04 December 2014 28 min read
Kathi Kellenberger SQL Server Reporting Services Basics: The Visual Controls The challenge of report development is to present complex data in a simple, visually compelling way. The goal is to... 03 December 2014 17 min read
Matthew Skelton Continuous Delivery for Databases: Microservices, Team Structures, and Conway’s Law Having described some of the most common database deployability blockers, Matthew Skelton proposes a way to enable database continuous delivery... 19 November 2014 20 min read
Phil Factor Bitwise Operations in T-SQL How can you, in T-SQL, get a list of columns that have changed within a trigger? How can you see... 18 November 2014 22 min read
