The IoT market matured considerably in 2017. In this series of predictions, we take a look at how the industry will continue to grow up next year, while also consolidating.
It’s not uncommon for a DBA to have to remove all user connections from a database when performing certain maintenance or upgrade tasks. Here are a few methods for doing so.
This product -- the first new tool for interacting with SQL Server in over a decade -- is the next step towards modernizing the dated SQL Server Management Studio tool.
Statistics can be automatically generated and updated depending upon certain conditions set at the database level. But sometimes it makes sense to manually add statistics objects to your tables & indexes in Microsoft SQL Server.
The four companies, taken together, also stand widely accused of the sins associated with corporate bullies: crushing competition, avoiding taxes, undermining democracy and invading privacy.
Why are statistics so critical? Because without this insight into how your data is distributed in your tables and indexes, the SQL Server Query Optimizer (QO) would not have any understanding of how your data is distributed.
The challenge involves an undirected cyclic graph that represents pairs of connected nodes that have some kind of a relationship between them. The goal is to group all nodes that are connected either directly or indirectly (transitively).