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T-SQL bugs, pitfalls, and best practices – window functions

SQL Performance

This article is the fourth installment in a series about T-SQL bugs, pitfalls and best practices. The focus of this month's article is bugs, pitfalls and best practices related to window functions. In my examples I'll use a sample database called TSQLV5. At any rate, make sure to remember the best practice here!

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T-SQL bugs, pitfalls, and best practices – pivoting and unpivoting

SQL Performance

This article is the fifth part in a series about T-SQL bugs, pitfalls and best practices. In my examples, I'll use a sample database called TSQLV5. You can find the script that creates and populates this database here , and its ER diagram here. Previously I covered determinism , subqueries , joins and windowing.

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T-SQL bugs, pitfalls, and best practices – Joins

SQL Performance

This article is the third installment in a series about T-SQL bugs, pitfalls and best practices. Some of the bugs and best practices that I cover here are a result of a survey I did among fellow MVPs. In my examples I’ll use a sample database called TSQLV5. Previously I covered determinism and subqueries.

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Easily monitor your SAP ABAP platform and user experience with Dynatrace (GA)

Dynatrace

Having released this functionality in a Preview Release back in May 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our SAP ABAP monitoring extension. SAP database performance: Query response time, percentage of time spent in the database, and the number of database calls executed by the SAP server.

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NULL complexities – Part 1

SQL Performance

Even among people who do have a good grasp of relational theory and SQL, you will hear very strong opinions both in favor and against using NULLs in your database. In my examples I'll use a sample database called TSQLV5. You can find the script that creates and populates this database here , and its ER diagram here.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. Jack Lenox.

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Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Dynatrace

In 2019, Gartner reported that 30% of organizations worldwide were running containerized applications. Best practices for container security. Here is a checklist of best practices for how to approach container security. Dynatrace news. Containers have become hugely popular. Pretty neat, isn’t it?