Synthetic Data Generation
Introduction Sooner or later, any information system gets a database, often – more than one. With...
Mastering the Use of Stoplists With SQL Server Full-Text Search (FTS)
Creating and managing stoplists serves as one of the main components responsible for improving the Full-Text Search performance alongside...
Your Ultimate Guide to SQL Join: INNER JOIN – Part 1
Inner join, outer join, cross join? What gives? It’s a valid question. I once saw a Visual Basic code with T-SQL codes embedded in it....
Configure SQL Server Log Shipping
This article explains the step by step deployment process of the SQL Server Log shipping. It is the...
How To Create SQL Trace To Capture SQL Server Events
Facing an SQL Server performance issue, you need to identify the source of that performance problem fast. Therefore, a tool for tracking...
Git Branching Naming Convention: Best Practices
Git offers flexible branching strategies, but what does it mean? In simple words, a branching strategy is a set of rules, a convention that...
3 Nasty I/O Statistics That Lag SQL Query Performance
“But it ran fine on our development server!” How many times did I hear it when SQL query...
How to use Stopwords and Stoplist to improve SQL Server Full-Text Search (FTS)
The current article is about Stopwords and Stoplist usage. The aim is to make Full-Text Search more efficient in terms of storage and...
Deploying a Certificate for Encrypted Connection SQL Server
Introduction Last year we got a requirement to ensure encrypted connections to our SQL Server instances. Before, we did not think it was...
How to Configure Database Mail in SQL Server
INTRODUCTION Notifications are usual in most modern systems. SQL Server implemented means of...
