There are many reasons you should monitor your databases, including avoiding performance problems or running out of disk space. Ideally, you want a scalable monitoring solution where you can monitor all your SQL databases in one single place. This article will describe two options that are available: Azure SQL Analytics and Azure SQL Insights. Both […]
2022-03-18
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Introduction Azure Purview is Microsoft’s unified data governance service that helps you discover and get insight into your available data. It replaces Azure Data Catalog and is now based on Apache Atlas, one of the leading open-source data governance and metadata frameworks. Apache Atlas was created by Hortonworks and big names within finance, pharma, etc. […]
2021-02-18
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A quick-start to SQL Server StreamInsight and Complex Event Processing with a step-by-step example on stock quotes.
2019-03-26 (first published: 2010-03-17)
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An example of building a StreamInsight input adapter for retrieving Twitter data in real-time.
2019-03-26 (first published: 2010-09-29)
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An introduction to SQL Server StreamInsight and Complex Event Processing with a focus on Business Intelligence.
2019-03-26 (first published: 2010-01-25)
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Learn how to use Biml to create a SSIS-package with a Script component that can read from Twitter.
2019-01-01 (first published: 2016-04-28)
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Tired of building tons of similar SSIS packages for importing files into your data warehouse? Learn how to autogenerate them using Biml.
2018-02-16 (first published: 2015-09-10)
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One of the new features of SQL Server 2016 is the ability to time travel in your databases and visit a specific table at a specific point of time in history. You can also use this feature to audit changes or “undo” whole data warehouse updates.
2017-09-04 (first published: 2016-10-18)
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Step by step guide to building and debugging a SQL Server StreamInsight input adapter.
2009-11-25
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A step by step example of how to add pre-calculated closing balances through T-SQL and semi-additive measures from Johan Åhlén.
2009-11-04
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By Steve Jones
In a previous post, I deployed a model to a database using SQL Compare...
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Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022 ...
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Last week I spent a few days in Cambridge, UK for the Redgate Company...
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I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) , [Country2] [char] (3), [stateprovince2] [char] (2), [Country] [char] (3), [stateprovince] [char] ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use? See possible answers
