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• Limited public preview opens for Azure SQL Data Warehouse

  Microsoft opened the preview of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a petabyte-scale, distributed columnar data warehouse service with massively parallel processing. Continue Reading

• Two ways to encrypt database backups with SQL Server

  SQL Server 2014 provides two features that let database administrators easily encrypt database backups. An expert provides two demos that show you how. Continue Reading

• Create a user-defined server role in SQL Server 2012 with T-SQL, SSMS

  Ashish Mehta shows two ways – with T-SQL and with SSMS -- to make a user-defined server role in SQL Server 2012. Continue Reading

• Nine T-SQL best practices

  Choosing the right data type and avoiding dynamic SQL are two of the nine T-SQL best practices that author Basit Farooq explains here. Continue Reading

• SQL Server views: Creating indexes and adding base data

  SQL Server views allow you to give information to users without compromising security. Find out how to create indexes on them and add base data. Continue Reading

• SQL Server views: What they are and how to create them

  SQL Server views can help DBAs provide information to users while still controlling data access. Find out how.Continue Reading

• SQL CONSTRAINT clauses: FOREIGN KEY, CHECK and DEFAULT

  In SQL Server, SQL CONSTRAINT clauses let you control values entered into a column. Learn about FOREIGN KEY, CHECK and DEFAULT constraints here.Continue Reading

• SQL CONSTRAINT clauses: PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE

  In SQL Server, SQL CONSTRAINT clauses let you control the kinds of values that get entered into a column. Learn about two of them here.Continue Reading

• Manage your SQL Server databases with SQL DMVs

  SQL DMVs (dynamic management views) can help simplify administration of SQL Server databases. Find out how with detailed examples.Continue Reading

• Manage, query SQL Azure Federations using T-SQL

  Can SQL Azure help you manage “big data?” SQL Azure Federations enhances traditional partitioning, says Roger Jennings. Part 1 of this two-part series looks at using T-SQL to make federated tables.Continue Reading

• The most dangerous game: Hunting down bad SQL query performance

  SQL Server is faster when the queries behind your applications are faster. Learn how to spot bad SQL query performance, and then work with developers so you can improve throughput.Continue Reading

• Programming SMO applications for improved management, automation

  SQL Server Management Objects can be very helpful when used with (or even instead of) T-SQL, particularly when it comes to monitoring database backups and space utilization.Continue Reading

• Working with IntelliSense in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio

  IntelliSense in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio provides easy access to language elements when writing T-SQL queries. Knowing the basics can simplify coding in a big way.Continue Reading

• Top 10 SQL Server development tips of 2008

  Here are the top 10 most viewed SQL Server development tips of 2008. From converting date/time values into character types, working with DATETIME and SMALLDATETIME in SQL Server 2005, using a stored procedure to find the size of SQL Server tables ...Continue Reading

• Supertype and subtype tables in SQL Server

  Learn how to physically implement supertype and subtype tables and clusters on a SQL Server in this excerpt from "A Developer's Guide to Data Modeling for SQL Server, Covering SQL Server 2005 and 2008" by Eric Johnson and Joshua Jones.Continue Reading