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Enhancing Your ETL Pipelines with Custom Data Cleansing and Matching

Bad or missing data can lead to huge costs for your company. However, implementing solutions to cleanse the data can be difficult and time-consuming. How can you best cleanse your SQL Server data?

Author: Koen Verbeeck

Filtering and Aggregating Hive Tables with Spark SQL

Learn how to use the Apache Spark ecosystem to filter and/or aggregate data stored in hive tables.

Author: John Miner

Configure Auto-Failover Group for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instances for SQL Server

This tip will show how to configure auto-failover groups for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instances for SQL Server.

Author: Manvendra Singh

Efficient Cloud Management Considerations

If you want to use cloud resources efficiently, learn how to make sure you fully address five main areas of cloud management: costs, regulations, resources, identity, and deployment automation.

Author: Maria Zakourdaev

How to get a date and time from a SQL Server RowVersion value with T-SQL

Check out this article to help you figure out real dates and times when using a SQL Server RowVersion value.

Author: Eric Blinn

Monitor SQL Deadlocks in Amazon RDS for SQL Server

Learn how to configure and capture SQL Server deadlocks when using Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

Author: Rajendra Gupta

SSIS Bad Habits: Decreasing SSIS Package Performance

This tip will explain some mistakes SSIS developers usually make when designing ETL and how they should be avoided to help improve performance.

Author: Hadi Fadlallah

Configure Active Geo Replication for Azure SQL Database

Learn how to set up and configure a failover database for Azure SQL Database using Active Geo-Replication.

Author: Manvendra Singh

Setting SQL Deadlock Priority to Control the Transaction that is Rolled Back

Learn how to control which SQL Server transaction will get rolled back when a deadlock occurs by using DEADLOCK_PRIORITY.

Author: Sergey Gigoyan

Heapq Module in Python: Using Heaps and Priority Queues

In this tutorial, learn about Python priority queues and heaps, how do they relate, and how to use the heapq module in Python.

Author: Achyut Tripathi

Strategies to Improve SQL Server Storage Performance

Learn about important considerations for SQL Server Professionals building and managing large databases - storage, lower life cycle environments, performance, IO, backups, snapshots, DBCCs and more.

Author: Joseph D'Antoni

Deploy and Configure Azure SQL Managed Instance

This article covers how to deploy, configure and test the managed instance version of Azure SQL Database using the General-Purpose edition.

Author: John Miner

Save Points for SQL Server Database Deployments as a Recovery Option

In this tip, I will present options for creating a database save point, thereby establishing a recovery point that can be completed before database deployments in case a rollback is needed.

Author: Jim Evans

AWS CLI Syntax and Examples to Create Amazon RDS SQL Server Instance

Learn how to use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to create an Amazon RDS SQL Server instance along with syntax and examples.

Author: Rajendra Gupta

Find Last Restart of SQL Server

In this tip, we look at various methods of how to get the start time for a SQL Server instance.

Author: Greg Robidoux

SQL COUNT and SQL COUNT DISTINCT in SQL Server

This tip shows several examples of COUNT and COUNT DISTINCT to show how SQL Server handles them differently.

Author: Eric Blinn

SQL Server at Scale - Automate Archive Table Creation - Part 3

In this tip, we cover code snippets you can use to automate the generation of objects to build a hands-free archiving solution for SQL Server data.

Author: Aaron Bertrand

Steps to Upgrade SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability Groups to SQL Server 2019

In this article, we look at one approach for upgrading SQL Server to a newer version when Always On Availability Groups are being used.

Author: Muhammad Kamran

Effortless Data Processing with Delta Live Tables

This tip will introduce you to an innovative Databricks framework called Delta Live Tables. It is a dynamic data transformation tool, similar to the materialized views.

Author: Maria Zakourdaev

Connect to SQL Server with Python to Create Tables, Insert Data and Build Connection String

This article looks at how to connect to SQL Server using Python with an ODBC connection and a connection string along with some sample Python code.

Author: Levi Masonde

SQL Server 2022 Is Here!

SQL Server 2022 is here! Check out the official release from Microsoft and many of the resources available on MSSQLTips.com.

Author: Jeremy Kadlec