Friendly Deletes in SQL Server
One of the first things you learn when working with SQL Server, and other transactional based SQL […]
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Find and Replace Text in Strings in T-SQL
String manipulation is an inevitable task for developers and data professionals alike. Despite all the best efforts […]
Upgrade SQL Server on your workstation
Lately, I’ve seen many people struggling to upgrade their workstation to the latest version of SQL Server. […]
Database Feature Toggles
In software development the concept of feature toggles are used to selectively turn on and off features. […]
Functions and Procedures: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant
One of the most useful constructs in SQL Server is the stored procedure. It gives you a […]
Leave it better than you found it
This is for the folks who still have to log into remote machines and do work manually […]
Automating BCP with PowerShell
I was talking with a good friend that has an environment with terabytes of information and to […]
Feature Flags in Data Projects
My motivation for writing this summary was an interaction with a project owner that didn’t understand why […]
Adding a new AI usage policy to Simple-Talk
I used to think plagiarism was my worst thing to deal with as an editor. That is […]
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Microsoft Fabric
Nikola Ilic, best known as Data Mozart, published a great article and video about how to make […]
State of the Database Landscape Results 2024
Every year, Redgate surveys technologists to ask a big question (through lots of little questions, naturally.) This […]
Querying MongoDB Documents
MongoDB provides an efficient environment for storing document data at scale. However, most of your interactions with […]
The Importance of Retention
It is always an afterthought. New objects are created that start off small and current. New feature […]
Working on Technology Off the Clock
I have always spent time learning relational databases on my own, non-work time. As the years have […]
Semantic Model: More than a Simple Name Change
The animation on the top of this article tries to track the evolution of the enterprise architecture […]
Optimized locking in Azure SQL Database
I don’t think I’ve ever had a great impression of Azure SQL Database as a place for […]
PowerShell Dynamic Parameters and SQL Server
Have you ever been in a situation that you want to call a cmdlet or a function […]
Being A Bit Less Comfortable in 2024
I hate coming up with ideas for editorials, but my last editorial of the year gives me […]
Two-Dimensional Interval Packing Challenge
Packing intervals is a classic SQL task that involves packing groups of intersecting intervals to their respective […]
Warehouse Load Patterns – Part 2 – Load Patterns
This continues and finishes my two-part series on warehouse load patterns. There are many methods to transfer […]
Eager Aggregation in SQL queries
Aggregation is a widely used way to summarize the content of a database. It is usually expressed […]
Introducing the MongoDB Document
MongoDB is a document database. As such, the data is stored as individual documents. A document is […]
Counting more efficiently
Nearly a decade ago, I wrote a post called “Bad habits : Counting rows the hard way.” […]
Using a SQL Tokenizer
Imagine this: you have several directories full of SQL script files, and you need to know where […]
Using Spark Jobs for Multiple Lakehouse Maintenance in Microsoft Fabric
I have published videos and articles before about Lakehouse maintenance. In this article I want to address […]
MySQL Error Log Management in DevOps Operations
When it comes to the development and operations (DevOps), one thing stands out as a critical aspect […]
Fabric Notebooks and Deployment Pipelines
On my article about Fabric source control extended features, I explained how Microsoft included the notebooks on […]
Exploring PostgreSQL Indexes
In this blog, we continue our exploration on PostgreSQL indexes which we started here. In that article, […]
SQL Server: Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads – use or ...
I used to believe this option was something almost absolute: it should be enabled as best practice. […]
Understanding SQL Join Types
Understanding how to join the data in one table to another is crucial for any data analyst […]
Microsoft Fabric: Extended Source Control Features
The source control features in Microsoft Fabric are evolving every day. The PBIP feature included in Power […]
When an update doesn’t update
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: I changed data from my application, but when I […]
Warehouse Load Patterns – Part 1 – Requirements and General ...
No matter the ETL tool used, there are some basic patterns to follow when transferring data between […]
Updates about Database Projects for Microsoft Fabric
comp A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog about Database Projects for Microsoft Fabric. It’s an […]
Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric
Source control is fundamental when dealing with projects and sharing code between multiple developers. Power BI present […]
What is Microsoft Fabric all about?
In this article, we will introduce Microsoft Fabric and how it relates to Power BI Premium Capacity […]
Back home from the PASS Data Community Summit
What a week it was. While it wasn’t my first in person conference this year, it felt […]
Strategies for queries against bit columns
Recently someone posted a question where they couldn’t quite figure out how to construct a predicate based […]
PASS Summit 2023 – Community Keynote – AIOps and ChatGPT ...
Last but not least, the Community Keynote. Hang on to your hats, this is going to be […]
PASS Summit 2023 – Redgate Keynote – The New Database ...
Day 2 is here! Sitting here at the bloggers table waiting for the keynote to commence! <image […]
PASS Summit 2023 – Microsoft Keynote – Limitless growth, limitless ...
CEO of Redgate: Jakub Lemik: This year’s theme is Connect, Share, and Learn. Tomorrow will be People […]
Autonomous Databases?
I was talking to some people today about the concept of Autonomous Databases. The idea is that […]
Getting Started with MongoDB
MongoDB is a scalable database management system that stores data as documents in a collection, rather than […]
An editor’s biggest headache: Plagiarism
As an editor working with other people’s technical writing for many years, you might guess that either […]
The NTILE Function
The SQL NTILE() is a window function that allows you to break a table into a specified […]
Fabric Data Warehouse News you need to know
Microsoft Fabric, including the Data Warehouse, evolves faster than we can analyze and write about it. Here […]
Moving SQL Server To The Cloud: Modernizing Stack Overflow for ...
Earlier this year, we migrated the entire Stack Overflow for Teams platform to Azure. This was a […]
Creating an Azure PostgreSQL cluster and connecting to it
One of the technologies that my new job brought with it was learning about all the various […]
Getting connected to PostgreSQL for the first time
PostgreSQL continues to be all the rage in 2023, whether in “vanilla” form of the fully open-source […]
SQL Endpoints and Lakehouse UI Differences and Access Secrets
There are some differences and secrets between the UI of a SQL Endpoint and the UI of […]