KPIs or Key Performance Indicators are one of the most important entities in driving business decisions. It can be defined as a (quantifiable) measurement used to define and measure an organization's progress in achieving business goals. KPIs for an organization are decided upon by giving careful thought to how each goal and the progress towards these goals should be measured.
In a followup to his article on SQL Server Everywhere, Jacob Sebastian takes a more in-depth look at the smallest platform for SQL Server, Compact Edtion.
An overview of how to collect data from TSQL into Operations Manager Performance Rules.
The final installment of Steve Jones' comparison between software developers and other professions looks at the most closely related: engineers.
Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is a groundbreaking innovation in Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework version 3.5 that bridges the gap between the world of objects and the world of data. As LINQ is part of the development enhancements in SQL Server 2008, how can I have an understanding of how it works and how I can use it in other areas of administration, not just SQL Server?
Get security practices, procedures and documentation to meet Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. This tip includes checklists to guide SQL DBAs and developers to inspect systems.
The final installment of Steve Jones' comparison between software developers and other professions looks at the most closely related: engineers.
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Lots of FKs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data...
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
See possible answers