(Richard Carr) The seventy-seventh part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial continues to describe the WPF menu controls, which present the user with a number of commands from which they may select. The second menu control is MenuItem.
Other News
SQL SERVER – Three Top Efficiency Features of Management Tool for SQL Server
(Pinal Dave) Every weekend I spend time learning something new and interesting. My primary focus is always on either performance of SQL Server or performance of myself. This weekend, I downloaded dbForge Studio for SQL Server.
Redefining High Availability for a Data Warehouse
(Ian Bjorhovde) When the term high availability is brought up, most of the DBAs that I know reflexively think of technical solutions that we have implemented to help keep a system or database available for users – things like pureScale (“data sharing” for you mainframe DBAs), HADR and cluster manage
The Joy of Continuous Models for Streaming Data
(David Birmingham) The latest wave of big data requirements sees raw data streaming at high velocity and volume to various ports of call. Data is integrated on the fly at a breathless pace. Most back-end processing aficionados are well aware of the batch-style, load-and-query model.
Deep Neural Networks: A Getting Started Tutorial
(James McCaffrey) The term deep neural network can have several meanings, but one of the most common is to describe a neural network that has two or more layers of hidden processing neurons.
Change Sort Options on Dimension Attributes in SQL Server Analysis Services
(Dallas Snider) By default, SQL Server Analysis Services will sort and display dimension attribute values in alphabetical order. When displaying the days of the week or the months of the year (as shown below), we often want to see the data in chronological order instead of alphabetical order.
Linked Servers Are Going Away
SQL Server supported Linked Servers for years. Now Microsoft is letting us know this capability is going to be deprecated in a future release. When they do stop supporting linked servers, what will be the impact on you? For the un-initiated, a linked server may be created on an instance of SQL Server allowing access to an external SQL source. […]
Microsoft SQL Server 2014: Database Engine key new features – (Part 1)
Microsoft SQL Server 2014: Database Engine key new features – (Part 1) Author: Basit A. Farooq Earlier this year, Microsoft released SQL Server 2014. Like previous releases of SQL Server, Microsoft further enhances the SQL Server Database Engine. Microsoft not only improved existing SQL Server Database Engine features, but also introduces many new Database Engine features, including new in-memory OLTP...
Is your Team Willing to Take Control?
(Jason Brimhall) The calendar tells us that once again we have reached the second tuesday of the month. In the SQL Community, this means a little party as many of you may already know. This is the TSQL Tuesday Party.
Deep Dive: SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups and Cross-Region Virtual Networks in Azure
(Igor Pagliai) SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG) is a great technology for high-availability and disaster-recovery, and if you want to build an IaaS VM environment in Azure, you have to deal with it since Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) is not supported here yet.
