Who are these scripts for? You need to troubleshoot performance problems with SQL Server, and you need to do it now. You don't have time to track down a bunch of DMVs, figure out Extended Events, ...

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Temp tables are great for storing temporary data without affecting other sessions. But there's one big GOTCHA that you may not be aware of, and that has to do with naming your primary keys. For ...

I was scrolling through YouTube and came across a video where one of my heroes, Brent Ozar (brenozar.com), showed how temporary tables and statistics can cause trouble for us developers working in SQL ...

At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across a ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

Hackers have been observed trying to breach cloud environments through Microsoft SQL Servers vulnerable to SQL injection. Microsoft's security researchers report that this lateral movement technique ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...

Need some hands-on SQL experience before starting full-time at your first data analyst job? Don’t know where to start? You’d be pleasantly surprised to know that there are not one but five different ...