Enrico van de Laar The SQL Server 2016 Query Store: Accessing Query Store Information Using DMVs The SQL Server 2016 Query Store provides several new ways of troubleshooting queries, studying their plans, exploring their context settings,... 26 January 2016 13 min read
Edward Elliott Connected Development with SQL Server Data Tools Although SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) encourages 'disconnected' database development, it also provides the SQL Server Object Explorer (SSOX) tool... 26 January 2016 8 min read
Laerte Junior The PoSh DBA – Towards the Re-usable PowerShell Script When starting out with PowerShell, it is hard to escape from the detail to work out the best strategy for... 21 January 2016 17 min read
Casimir Saternos Data Manipulation in R: Beyond SQL Although SQL is an obvious choice for retrieving the data for analysis, it strays outside its comfort zone when dealing... 13 January 2016 19 min read
Enrico van de Laar The SQL Server 2016 Query Store: Built-in Reporting One of the most important features of the SQL Server 2016's new Query Store is the reporting. With these features,... 06 January 2016 11 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
Joe Celko Declarative SQL: Using References There are several ingenious ways of using SQL References to enforce integrity declaratively. Declarative Referential Integrity (DRI) is more effective... 15 December 2015 13 min read
Joe Celko Declarative SQL: Using UNIQUE Constraints In SQL, you can express the logic of what you want to accomplish without spelling out the details of how... 04 December 2015 14 min read
Laerte Junior The PoSh DBA – Using the Basic PowerShell Paradigms PowerShell is like any computer language: you must understand the paradigms, the constructs, and the way it is designed to... 04 December 2015 10 min read
Omid Afzalalghom Doing a SQL Server Healthcheck via PowerShell PowerShell is an ideal tool for doing health checks of a collection of SQL Server instances, and there are several... 16 November 2015 13 min read
Enrico van de Laar The SQL Server 2016 Query Store: Overview and Architecture SQL Server's Query Store, introduced in SQL Server 2016, helps to troubleshoot query performance by capturing a range of information... 16 November 2015 14 min read
Edward Elliott SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and Database References SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) provides, via the DacPac, interesting support for verifying not only those references within the database,... 16 November 2015 12 min read
Grant Fritchey Using SQL Prompt to Accelerate the Top 10 Most Common Database Scripts There may be some people who enjoy repetitive typing, but Grant Fritchey doesn't. He's always preferred SQL Prompt. The standard... 04 November 2015 8 min read
Peter Gerrard Jodie Beay and the Deployment of the Cross-Database Dependency When you use AdventureWorks as a practice database, have you ever looked at the code and thought 'what idiot did... 03 November 2015 13 min read
Phil Factor Routine SQL DML Testing for the Unenthusiastic Tester There are more exciting things in life than unit testing SQL Statements, checking the results, timings, and execution plans. Phil... 03 November 2015 16 min read
William Brewer Questions About CUBE, ROLLUP and GROUPING SETs That You Were Too Shy to Ask There are few parts of SQL Syntax as familiar as the GROUP BY clause of the SELECT statement. On the... 03 November 2015 17 min read
Neeraj Tripathi SQL Server Heaps, and Their Fragmentation In SQL Server, heaps are rightly treated with suspicion. Although there are rare cases where they perform well, they are... 02 November 2015 11 min read
Sjors Takes Implementing Continuous Integration for Databases Continuous integration (CI) is becoming more and more common in application development. It ensures code and related resources are integrated... 02 November 2015 8 min read
Laerte Junior Automating Your SQL Server Best Practice Reports: The Document If you're making a report from table-based data, an MS Word document is often a good option. In the second... 21 October 2015 10 min read
Grant Fritchey Top 10 Most Common Database Scripts What are the scripts that a working DBA uses so often that they become part of the 'muscle memory'? Grant... 15 October 2015 14 min read
