New solution allows developers and teams to “buy the base and rent the peak” when provisioning for variable workloads without wastage or performance tradeoffs
2023-11-08
504 reads
Microsoft has built an amazing platform with Azure SQL Database and has recently announced an offer to use this for free. Read about the capabilities and options with this cloud database platform.
2023-10-13
2,819 reads
The PASS Data Community Summit is back in Seattle this November, with hundreds of speakers covering a wide variety of database topics, including cloud computing. We feature two of those speakers in this webinar: Bob Ward of Microsoft and Steve Jones of Redgate.
2023-09-15 (first published: 2023-09-11)
Spot all five differences below and enter our prize draw competition to be in with a chance of winning a 3-day pass to PASS Data Community Summit 2023.
2023-08-24
1,455 reads
The WIT panel at this year's PASS Data Community Summit includes a number of women who will answer questions on growing your career and rising up the org chart within your organization.
2022-11-09 (first published: 2022-11-08)
542 reads
We are reaching out to all people that enjoyed SQL Saturday in LA 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 events to let you know that the 2021 event is fast approaching. Only 30+ days remain until the June 12 Virtual Data.SQL.Saturday.LA event. Please register soon to reserve your spot by using http://2021sqlsatla.eventbrite.com/ hyperlink, register using a form below or just use a QR code.
2021-05-26 (first published: 2021-05-05)
In this free eBook, Kalen Delaney explains how Microsoft's 2016 In-memory OLTP engine works. In her book, learn how to use lock- and latch-free data structures to allow non-blocking data processing, and find out how to migrate existing tables to Hekaton.
2020-12-30 (first published: 2015-05-13)
55,467 reads
If a query is performing poorly, and you can't understand why, then that query's execution plan will tell you not only what data set is coming back, but also what SQL Server did, and in what order, to get that data. It will reveal how the data was retrieved, and from which tables and indexes, what types of joins were used, at what point filtering, sorting and aggregation occurred, and a whole lot more. These details will often highlight the likely source of any problem.
2020-12-23 (first published: 2013-07-30)
119,575 reads
Fundamentals of SQL Server 2012 Replication provides a hands-on introduction to SQL Server replication. The book introduces you to the technologies that make up replication, and then walks you through setting up different replication scenarios. When you've finished reading, you should be able to implement your own multi-server replication setup while following the principle of least privilege.
2020-12-16 (first published: 2014-02-26)
82,179 reads
This free eBook from Redgate Software will take you from the fundamentals of Statistics, Cost Estimation, Index Selection, and the Execution Engine, and guide you through the inner workings of the Query Optimization process, and throws in a pragmatic look at Parameterization and Hints along the way.
2020-12-09 (first published: 2012-12-11)
54,472 reads
pg_cron is a simple cron-based job scheduler for PostgreSQL that runs inside the database...
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I heard someone say recently that you can’t change a primary key value in...
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Indexes 101: What, Why, and When? “What Is an Index?” I get this question...
Wondering how others keep track of the purpose for SQL Logins? I'm not talking...
Upgrading an instance of SQL Server 2019 to SQL Server 2022 - I am...
SQL Server SSRS 2022. Running into ' SSL Provider, error: 0 - The target...
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