Grant Fritchey Graphical Execution Plans for Simple SQL Queries Learning how to read and analyze execution plans takes time and effort. But once you gain some experience, you will... 16 December 2008 41 min read
Joe Celko Temporal Datatypes in SQL Server In the first of a series of articles on the tricks of tackling temporal data in SQL, Joe Celko discusses... 16 December 2008 10 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna Some Data with your Application Take-away, Sir? Prasanna is reminded of pizza in cardboard boxes when he explores the possibilities of Synchronization Services for ADO.NET. Data applications... 09 December 2008 9 min read
Robert Sheldon SQL Server Index Basics Given the fundamental importance of indexes in databases, it always comes as a surprise how often the proper design of... 25 November 2008 10 min read
Joe Celko Unique Experiences! You'd have thought that a unique constraint was an easy concept - Not a bit of it; it can cause... 18 November 2008 14 min read
Phil Factor Robyn Page SQL Server Matrix Workbench In this workbench, Robyn Page and Phil Factor decide to tackle the subject of Matrix handling and Matrix Mathematics in... 15 November 2008 13 min read
Rodney Landrum The DBA Script Thumb Like many DBAs, Rodney has squirrelled away a large number of routines that he uses almost daily to check on... 10 November 2008 13 min read
Robert Sheldon SQL Server Data Warehouse Cribsheet It is time to shed light on Data Warehousing and to explain how SSAS, SSRS and Business Intelligence fit into... 03 November 2008 21 min read
Joe Celko Constraint Yourself! In his first article for Simple-Talk, Joe Celko demystifies the use of Constraints, and points out that they are an... 26 October 2008 13 min read
Francis Hanlon On the Trail of the Expanding Databases It is sometimes difficult for other IT people to understand the constraints that DBAs have to work under. So often... 11 October 2008 12 min read
Brad McGehee SQL Server 2008: The New Data Types Brad continues his helicopter-level view of the most interesting new features of SQL Server 2008 with a look at the... 11 October 2008 15 min read
Alex Kozak The Bejeweled Puzzle in SQL Alex Kozak provides another SQL puzzle to hone your SQL Skills with. … 09 October 2008 6 min read
Robert Sheldon Using Powershell to Generate Table-Creation Scripts For all of us who learn best by trying out examples, Bob Sheldon produces a PowerShell script file for SQL... 04 October 2008 19 min read
Ron Dameron Why This SQL Server DBA is Learning Powershell Ron describes how he decided to study Powershell as a single scripting system to automate all the common repetitive server... 30 September 2008 18 min read
Richard Morris SQL Response: The dim sum interview Richard Morris met David and Nigel of the SQL Response team, in a dim sum Restaurant in Cambridge. They had... 30 September 2008 13 min read
Joe Webb Using Covering Indexes to Improve Query Performance Designers of database systems will often assume that the use of a clustered index is always the best approach. However... 29 September 2008 12 min read
Phil Factor Robyn Page Database Design Workbench – Keys Robyn Page and Phil Factor explore the innocent subject of Keys for their latest workbench. Everybody knows about keys. Oh... 19 September 2008 18 min read
Brian Harris SQL Response: Choosing Our Words Carefully Historically, the profession of "technical author" emerged from the nascent aerospace and technology industries following the war, and brought with... 17 September 2008 9 min read
Brian Harris SQL Response: Does Everything Need a Name? Our overriding goal at Red Gate is to make our software more usable by "doing whatever works". That means to... 17 September 2008 5 min read
Anith Sen Faking Arrays in Transact SQL It is a simple routine that we all need to use occasionally; parsing a delimited list of strings in TSQL.... 16 September 2008 20 min read
