| The Complete Weekly Roundup of SQL Server News | Hand-picked content to sharpen your professional edge |
| The Weekly News | All the headlines and interesting SQL Server information that we've collected over the past week, and sometimes even a few repeats if we think they fit. |
Vendors/3rd Party Products |
How to customize a database deployment process using Flyway, demonstrating how to incorporate tasks such stamping a version number into the latest database build, or writing to the SQL Server log. |
AI/Machine Learning/Cognitive Services |
Who can use forecasting? The goal of forecasting,... |
Analysis Services / BI on the MS Stack |
DAX.do is a new website by SQLBI where you can wri... |
Azure Databricks, Spark and Snowflake |
Question: When an activity in a Data Factory pipel... |
For the past year Microsoft have said that Generat... |
You can see an announcement from Buck Woody (b | t) of Microsoft on Data Exposed. Essentially, Microsoft is providing a number of free resources to help local user... The... |
This is one way to create a polling loop in PowerS... |
There is no shortage of PowerShell editors and environments for developing and running scripts. Greg Moore explains some of his favorites. |
Data Privacy, Compliance, and GDPR |
Citibank was trying to make $7.8M in interest paym... |
Virginia is about to get a data privacy law, model... |
DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) |
This is the fifth year that Redgate has surveyed I... |
Many organizations use out-of-date architecture pa... |
DBAs are in great demand, but what if you are recruiting a DBA for DevOps? Mike Cuppett explains how to hire and train the right DBA for the job. |
Last month we have been hiding things in Excel, so... |
HA/DR/Always On/Clustering |
The attached PDF is the slide deck for my Introduction to Corruption presentation from Feb 17th 2021. I hope you enjoyed the session. The post Introduction to Corruption Slide Deck... |
As part of my job, I’ve been tasked with doing s... |
Performance Tuning SQL Server |
Having up to date statistics is vital for getting ... |
When you are making changes to an existing Non-Clu... |
Milk Carton Part of reviewing any server necessarily includes reviewing indexes. When you’re working through things that matter, like unused indexes, duplicative indexes, heaps, etc. it’s pretty clear cut... |
(Thanks to Erik Darling for reviewing this post. Check out his training materials.) One of the bigger clichés in the data professional vocabulary (behind “it depends”) is that you... |
PowerPivot/PowerQuery/PowerBI |
I have previously explained a number of use cases ... |
Do you have slowly changing dimensions in your Pow... |
Writing useless strings has been a focus of this series, and L-Systems (Lindenmayer Systems) are no different. It is a set or a string of characters that is rewritten... |
Guy Glanster explores the multiple behaviors of qu... |
As I have been building my Twitter management soft... |
This mission brings a lot of new hardware and scie... |
Chrome OS's rise in market share has been swift an... |
Back in our day, memes didn't benefit from central... |
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