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This book aims to improve your SQL queries using design patterns, how does it fare? The book contains a wide range of topics, supposedly held together by design patterns and best practices. Design ...

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SQL Server professionals use SSIS, T-SQL, PowerShell, and .NET for ETL, yet these tools require heavy programming and still fall short on verification, matching, and deduplication. This note explains ...

Many considerations go into evaluating whether it is time to implement an upgrade to a new version of SQL Server. You need to think about socket vs. core licensing ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Running SQL Server in the cloud can give users of the database software more flexibility and scalability than on-premises deployments offer -- and maybe save them some money, too. But things often go ...

JSON is a very common method of describing data, in many ways it is a successor to the often much wordier XML. The basics of JSON are discussed, describing its 2 main components: Objects and Arrays, ...