SSRS IIF, Switch and Choose Functions for Dynamic and Appealing Reports
Learn how to use IIF, Switch and Choose logical functions in SSRS reports to make your reports more dynamic and more appealing to report users.
2021-10-13
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Building an ETL with PowerShell
There are many ways to load data into a SQL Server database. In this article, Greg Moore demonstrates how to get PowerShell to do more of the work.
2021-10-11
State of Database Monitoring Report 2
We’re sharing the results of our State of Database Monitoring survey in four insights reports this year – and the second one is out now. In The value of a monitoring tool for the entire organization you’ll learn why more businesses than ever are using a monitoring tool and how doing so can help the entire business to reduce costs, enhance security and collaborate more efficiently. DBAs - download a copy and send it to your boss, today!
2021-10-11
Databricks Delta Change Data Feed
In this article we cover how to implement a batch Databricks Change Data Feed process through an end-to-end exercise.
2021-10-08
Estimating Data Compression Savings in SQL Server
This video demonstrates a set of queries for estimating data compression savings in SQL Server. It also covers how to make an informed decision on whether data compression makes sense for your data and workload or not.
2021-10-08
Learning the SQL GROUP BY Clause
Learn about the various ways to use the GROUP BY command to summarize and rollup query results. We look at the basics with examples as well as using group by rollup, cube and grouping sets.
2021-10-06
Tower Loan: Monitoring our estate and insights for your success
Join Kevin Davis, DBA Manager at Tower Loan to hear their playbook for successful distributed estate monitoring, and the role of SQL Monitor.
2021-10-06
Building blocks of Extended Events data collection
Extended Events have been part of SQL Server since 2008. In this article, Ed Pollack explains the building blocks of Extended Events data collection.
2021-10-04
SQL Server Diagnostic Memory Queries
Microsoft Data Platform MVP Glenn Berry demonstrates a set of eleven SQL Server Diagnostic Memory Queries that help you understand your memory usage in SQL Server.
2021-10-04
Advanced Schema Evolution using Databricks Auto Loader
This article demonstrates how to get started with using Auto Loader cloudFiles with Databricks through an end-to-end practical example of ingesting a data stream which has an evolving schema.
2021-10-01
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers