Joe Celko Databases and Dominoes A Dominoes game of Texas 42 inspires Joe to explore unusual uses for check constraints and views. Sometimes, the best... 09 September 2013 14 min read
Oracle Patrick Barel in Oracle Oracle Virtual Private Database (VPD) Part 2: Advanced Policy Options and Data Redaction (12c) Oracle Virtual Private Database (VPD) advanced policy options and Data Redaction - additional DBMS_RLS.ADD_POLICY parameters for fine-grained access control, and... 04 September 2013 9 min read
Robert Sheldon 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... 27 August 2013 15 min read
Grant Fritchey Database Administration as a Service A DBA should provide two things, a service and leadership. For Grant Fritchey, it was whilst serving a role in... 14 August 2013 11 min read
Michael Sorens Acceptance Testing with FitNesse: Documentation and Infrastructure FitNesse is a popular general-purpose wiki-based framework for writing acceptance tests for software systems, including databases. It is intended to... 02 August 2013 11 min read
Michael Sorens Acceptance Testing With FitNesse, The Overview FitNesse is an open-source framework for supporting user-acceptance testing. The aim is to make the construction of the individual tests... 31 July 2013 17 min read
Buck Woody Data Science Laboratory System – Key/Value Pair Systems Though the Key/Value pair paradigm is common to almost every computer language, there is no clear agreement yet for the... 17 July 2013 17 min read
Robert Sheldon Using Microsoft Excel to Retrieve SSAS Tabular Data Although it is well-known how to create a tabular database in PowerPivot, it is less obvious that there are several... 16 July 2013 19 min read
.NET Sergei Dumnov in .NET Build a BI Dashboard with R and ASP.NET MVC Step-by-step guide to building a web-based Business Intelligence dashboard using R for data extraction from SQL Server and ASP.NET MVC... 08 July 2013 22 min read
Feodor Georgiev Collecting the Information in the Default Trace The default trace is still the best way of getting important information to provide a security audit of SQL Server,... 02 July 2013 14 min read
Rob Garrison Exploring In-memory OLTP Engine (Hekaton) in SQL Server 2014 CTP1 The continuing drop in the price of memory has made fast in-memory OLTP increasingly viable. SQL Server 2014 allows you... 25 June 2013 12 min read
Robert Sheldon Using DAX to retrieve tabular data Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), originally the formula language for PowerPivot workbooks, can also be used within the MDX query window... 24 June 2013 17 min read
Ambily Kavumkal Kamalasanan Different Approaches of Entity Framework Entity Framework provides three different approaches to deal with the model, and each one has its own pros and cons.... 20 June 2013 11 min read
Buck Woody Data Science Laboratory System – Relational Database Management Systems There is no better way of understanding new data processing, retrieval, analysis or visualising techniques than actually trying things out... 14 June 2013 19 min read
Jonathan Allen Preparing to Upgrade SQL Server: Finding Deprecated Features with DMVs and Extended Events Preparing for a SQL Server upgrade by identifying deprecated features still in use - querying sys.dm_os_performance_counters for deprecation counters and... 12 June 2013 18 min read
Alexander Karmanov Automating SQL Server Database Deployments: Scripting Details To wrap up the series on Database Deployment Challenges, Alexander takes a dive into the details of how he scripted... 06 June 2013 30 min read
Tools Michael Sorens in Tools MySQL Data Compare: The Manual that Time Forgot MySQL Data Compare can both compare the data in MYSQL databases and also synchronise them. It is handy for a... 28 May 2013 16 min read
Robert Sheldon Getting Started with the SSAS Tabular Model SSAS Tabular models are in-memory databases that model data with relational constructs such as tables and relationships, in order to... 22 May 2013 16 min read
Grant Fritchey The DBA Detective: The Case of the Missing Index When problems arise in SQL Server, we're faced with a server full of suspects, including disk I/O, memory, CPU, incorrect... 15 May 2013 12 min read
Tools Michael Sorens in Tools MySQL Compare: The Manual That Time Forgot, Part 1 Although SQL Compare, for SQL Server, is one of Redgate's best-known products, there are also 'sister' tools that allow you... 03 May 2013 14 min read
