Efficient Solutions to Gaps and Islands Challenges
Window functions are useful for solving many SQL queries. In this article, Ed Pollack demonstrates how they can be used to analyse baseball winning streaks.
2020-02-06
Additional Articles
Updates to the Deployment Suite for Oracle
Redgate has added new capabilities to the Deployment Suite for Oracle, so it now supports automated migrations-based and state-based Oracle deployments on both Linux and Windows. They've introduced Redgate Change Control, a new capability for understanding development changes, generating migration scripts for version control, and getting precise control over the migration path during automated deployments. Our Schema Compare and Data Compare for Oracle command line tools have been extended to Linux as well as Windows, and we’ve added static code analysis that encourages teams to follow good coding practices on Windows or Linux.
2020-02-06
Custom Deployments from Source Control using SQL Compare Command line
Giorgi Abashidze explains how his team use a 2-phase deployment process with SQL Compare Command line, and some SQL Synonyms, to automate custom deployments for each of their customers, while only needing to maintain one branch per release in source control.
2020-02-05
Load Time Series Data with SQL Server
In this article we look at how to load time series data into SQL Server both for an initial load as well as adding new data.
2020-02-05
Building SQL Server Indexes in Ascending vs Descending Order
In this tip we look at the impact of building SQL Server indexes in ascending versus descending order and the impact.
2020-02-04
Static data in SQL Change Automation SSMS plugin
Kendra Little sat down with the SQL Change Automation Dev Team to get some insight into how they build the product with the customers in mind. SQL Change Automation 4.1 included adding support for the tracking of static data tables to the SSMS extension. This was a direct result of the communication and work the team have carried out with their customer base. Read Kendra’s blog to find out more about the release and the work that goes into delivering these updates.
2020-02-04
Changing SET options in a Procedure or Trigger leads to Recompilation (PE012)
Phil Factor delves into SQL Prompt's performance rule, PE012, which will advise you if it detects the use of the SET statements within a stored procedure or trigger, which might cause unnecessary recompilations, though the issue extends to other types of batches.
2020-02-03
How to Create an Ubuntu PowerShell Development Environment – Part 1
Since SQL Server now runs in Linux, more database professionals will begin to learn this operating system. In this article, Robert Cain demonstrates how to set up an Ubuntu virtual machine for learning.
2020-02-03
Power BI Advanced Q&A
What advanced features are available in the Power BI Q&A functionality? Also, how does the new Q&A visual work?
2020-01-31
Cloning all the Databases on a Server
Phil Factor shows uses SQL Clone and PowerShell to automatically create images of all databases on an instance, if they don't already exist, and then create or refresh clones of each one, on all your development servers.
2020-01-30
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Incremental Statistics
I have run this on SQL Server 2022 for the Sales database:
ALTER DATABASE Sales SET AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS ON (INCREMENTAL = ON)I then run this in the Sales database:
USE Sales GO CREATE STATISTICS CustomerStats1 ON dbo.Customer (CustomerKey, EmailAddress) WITH INCREMENTAL = OFFThe dbo.Customer table is partitioned. How are statistics created? See possible answers