Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Identity column vs ETL Process Creating ETL process can pose so many challenges we will only fully discover them when really building the ETL. Before... 01 March 2020 6 min read
Database DevOps William Brewer in Database DevOps Questions About SQL Server Security and Access Control You Were Too Shy to Ask For many developers, database security and Access control is just something that gets in the way of development work. However,... 04 November 2016 23 min read
Robert Sheldon SQL Server System Views: The Basics When maintaining or refactoring an unfamiliar database, you'll need a fast way to uncover all sorts of facts about the... 27 January 2016 19 min read
Robert Sheldon JSON support in SQL Server 2016 At last, SQL Server has caught up with other RDBMSs by providing a useful measure of JSON-support. It is a... 15 December 2015 21 min read
Artemakis Artemiou Introducing SQL Server In-Memory OLTP In-Memory OLTP, aka Hekaton, originally shipped with 2014, and although it certainly helped the performance of certain types of workload,... 30 September 2015 10 min read
William Sisson Where in the Application Should Data Validation be Done? Whereabouts in the application should the business logic of data-validation checks be made? The advantages of a layered approach to... 04 November 2014 12 min read
Edward Elliott Improving the Quality of SQL Server Database Connections in the Cloud To access SQL Server from the client, you use TDS protocol over TCP. This is fine over reliable LANs but... 22 September 2014 20 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
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
Learn SQL Server Jes Borland in Learn SQL Server SQL Server Indexed Views: What They Are and How to Create Them SQL Server indexed views persist query results as a physical clustered index, making complex aggregations and joins fast for repeated... 12 February 2014 24 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
Learn SQL Server Phil Factor in Learn SQL Server Primary Key Primer for SQL Server Every database developer uses keys, but without always understanding all the ramifications. They come with few hard and fast rules,... 02 December 2013 22 min read
Dwain Camps A SQL-Based Universal Currency Formatter SQL Server isn't usually the best place to format dates or currency as strings. It can be a complex task... 07 February 2013 12 min read
Seth Delconte 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... 25 January 2013 14 min read
Grant Fritchey Statistics in SQL Server SQL Server's Query Optimiser relies on statistics for providing a decent query plan. If the statistics are wrong, outdated or... 08 January 2013 10 min read
Joe Celko SQL VIEW Basics SQL Views are essential for the database developer. However, it is common to see them misused, or neglected. Joe Celko... 10 May 2012 19 min read
Fabiano Amorim SQL Server Window Function Performance: Execution Plans for Running Aggregates, LEAD, LAG, FIRST_VALUE, LAST_VALUE Performance analysis of SQL Server window functions - comparing execution plans for running aggregations (OVER + ORDER BY), LEAD and... 04 January 2012 12 min read
Robert Sheldon Incorporating XML into your Database Objects XML data can become a full participant in a SQL Server Database, and can be used in views, functions, check... 04 January 2012 14 min read
Robert Sheldon SQL Server XML Methods: query(), value(), exist(), nodes(), modify() The five SQL Server XML methods - query(), value(), exist(), nodes(), and modify() - explained with working AdventureWorks examples. Covers... 08 December 2011 23 min read
Fabiano Amorim Window Functions in SQL Server: Part 2-The Frame Fabiano continues his introduction to SQL Server's implementation of the window functions by giving a history of what got implemented... 24 November 2011 13 min read
