Dwain Camps The Performance of Traversing a SQL Hierarchy Dwain Camps show that, depending on the size and characteristics of some hierarchical data, six different methods of traversal can... 28 April 2014 16 min read
Kathi Kellenberger SQL Server Reporting Services Basics: Building SSRS Reports SQL Server Reporting Services is one of the most popular components of SQL Server, but it has always been surprisingly... 25 April 2014 27 min read
Kevin Feasel SQL Injection: How it Works and How to Thwart it This article is an extract from the book Tribal SQL. In this article, Kevin Feasel explains SQL injection attacks, how... 24 April 2014 33 min read
Robert Sheldon SQL Server XML Questions You Were Too Shy To Ask Sometimes, XML seems a bewildering convention that offers solutions to problems that the average database user doesn't have. To make... 22 April 2014 26 min read
Phil Factor Searching for Strings in SQL Server Databases Sometimes, you just want to do a search in a SQL Server database as if you were using a search... 15 April 2014 20 min read
Joe Celko Database Normalization Basics The task of Database Normalization doesn't have to be painful, especially if you follow Old Mother Celko's Normalization Heuristics.… 07 April 2014 20 min read
Phil Factor Continuous Delivery and the Database Continuous Delivery is fairly generally understood to be an effective way of tackling the problems of software delivery and deployment... 03 April 2014 38 min read
Grant Fritchey The DBA Detective: Disturbing Developments Originally one of the articles in the first DBA Team series, Grant wonders what Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett would... 31 March 2014 14 min read
Robert Sheldon 14 SQL Server Indexing Questions You Were Too Shy To Ask One of the first things one needs to understand well about SQL Server is indexes, but somehow many of the... 25 March 2014 22 min read
Dwain Camps High Performance Relational Division in SQL Server Relational division is used in SQL to select rows that conform to a number of different criteria. It is a... 24 March 2014 28 min read
Warwick Rudd AlwaysOn Availability Groups – What Not to do when Adding Databases SQL Server's AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide a very resilient way of providing High-availability for SQL Server databases, but there are... 10 March 2014 10 min read
Joshua Feierman Applying The Scientific Method to SQL Server Performance Tuning Database administrators tend to rely more on science than intuition, and may therefore seem exasperatingly cautious to other IT people.... 10 March 2014 14 min read
Laerte Junior The PoSh DBA – Specifying and Gathering Performance Counters If you are needing to keep tabs on a number of servers and applications in a Windows domain then performance... 07 March 2014 18 min read
Joe Celko On Handling Dates in SQL The calendar is inherently complex by the very nature of the astronomy that underlies the year, and the conflicting historical... 06 March 2014 16 min read
Robert Sheldon Seven SQL Server Under-Used Utilities There are more than ten useful command-line applications that are either associated with, or are distributed with, SQL Server. Some,... 25 February 2014 13 min read
Fabiano Amorim Fixing Cache Bloat Problems With Guide Plans and Forced Parameterization Imagine it. You've been asked to fix a dire performance problem with a SQL Server database. You find a severe... 20 February 2014 10 min read
Dwain Camps Calculating Gaps Between Overlapping Time Intervals in SQL There are a number of real-life reporting tasks in SQL that require a 'gaps and islands' analysis. There are a... 14 February 2014 21 min read
David Tate Guerrilla Project Management for DBAs All DBAs need to engage in a little project management to help make sure everything runs smoothly. In this extract... 13 February 2014 27 min read
Jes Borland SQL Server Indexed Views: The Basics Views are a valuable tool for the SQL Server Developer, because they hide complexity and allow for a readable style... 12 February 2014 23 min read
Joe Celko SQL Server SEQUENCE Basics The SEQUENCE statement introduced in SQL Server 2012 brings the ANSI SQL 2003 standard method of generating IDs. This is... 06 February 2014 13 min read
