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Database Normalization Basics

The task of Database Normalization doesn't have to be painful, especially if you follow Old Mother Celko's Normalization Heuristics.…

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SQL Server Performance Tuning Using Wait Statistics: A Beginner’s Guide

This beginner's guide by Jonathan Kehayias and Erin Stellato covers the basics of using wait statistics; topics include the SQLOS scheduler, performance tuning, baselines, and...

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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 of SQL expression. They aren't...

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Book Review: Optimizing And Troubleshooting Hyper V Networking 2013

If you want to learn how to optimize and troubleshoot Hyper-V, then this book, written by Microsoft people whose day job is to assist customers...

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SQL Server SEQUENCE Basics

The SEQUENCE statement introduced in SQL Server 2012 brings the ANSI SQL 2003 standard method of generating IDs. This is a great relief to database...

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PowerShell Data Basics: XML

To master PowerShell, you must know how to use XML. XML is an essential data interchange format because it remains the most reliable way of...

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PowerShell Data Basics: File-Based Data

One of the frustrations of anyone beginning with PowerShell is the simple task of getting data in and out. To help out with this, Michael...

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SSIS Basics: Using the Merge Join Transformation

SSIS is able to take sorted data from more than one OLE DB data source and merge them into one table which can then be...

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SQL Server SQLCMD Basics

Sqlcmd makes many SQL Server tasks, such as automating test runs and maintenance tasks, easier and quicker. The sqlcmd command-line utility is valuable to any...

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Using DAX to create SSRS reports: The Basics

You can use DAX to create reports from a tabular database in SQL Server Reporting Services. To do so requires a few workarounds. Rob Sheldon...

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SQL Server 2012 Window Function Basics

For some time, Microsoft had a few window functions, but not the full set specified in the SQL 2003 standard. Now, in SQL Server 2012...

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SSIS Basics: Using the Conditional Split

The Conditional Split can route data rows to different outputs depending on whatever criteria of the data that you wish. It works rather like the...

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Precision Indexing: Basics of Selective XML Indexes in SQL Server 2012

Seldom has a SQL Server Service pack had such an effect on database development as when SQL Server 2012 SP1 introduced selective XML indexes. These...

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SSIS BASICS: Introducing the Foreach Loop Container

The Control flow components of SSIS can cause a great deal of puzzlement to anyone learning SSIS, especially the Foreach Loop. Annette continues her popular...

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SSIS Basics: Using the Execute SQL Task to Generate Result Sets

The Execute SQL Task of SSIS is extraordinarily useful, but it can cause a lot of difficulty for developers learning SSIS, or only using it...

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Manipulating XML Data in SQL Server

When the average database developer is obliged to manipulate XML, either shredding it into relational format, or creating it from SQL, it is often done...

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SQL Server Execution Plans, Second Edition, by Grant Fritchey

Every Database Administrator, developer, report writer, and anyone else who writes T-SQL to access SQL Server data, must understand how to read and interpret execution...

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Database Source Control Basics: Getting Started

It makes a lot of sense to do it, but how do you get started? Whatever you use to build Applications with SQL Server, there...

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SSIS Basics: Introducing Variables

In the third of her SSIS Basics articles, Annette Allen shows you how to use Variables in your SSIS Packages, and explains the functions of...

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.NET Memory Management Basics

.NET memory management is designed so that the programmer is freed from the chore of consciously having to allocate and dispose of memory resources. It...

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