The complexity of using Power BI in US Sovereign Clouds
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Elements of the SQL Server Update Statement
Introduction This article explores a very common construct in standard SQL and Transact-SQL – the SQL Server Update […]
[Video] Office Hours in North Bay, Canada
Every year, Aaron Bertrand runs a curling tournament up in scenic North Bay where he grew up. I […]
Working with MongoDB Shell
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the […]
Tap Tap Tap – Short, Silent SQL Server Tutorials
One of the things I love about TikTok is that it exposes me to wildly new video ideas […]
Killing a SPID and Checking Rollback progress in SQL Server
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Free Webcast: Avoiding Deadlocks by Query Tuning
Deadlocks used to scare me. I’d get the alert from a monitoring tool, and I’d look around to […]
Data Elements on a Nominal Scale
“On a scale from 1 to 10, what color is your favorite letter of the alphabet?” –Slogan […]
Free Webcast Tomorrow: Fundamentals of Columnstore
It’s time for SQL Server Spring Training! I’m teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free […]
Navigating Your Test Data Challenges: Insights and Solutions
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Introduction to GitHub Actions Part 1: Getting Started
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Understanding UNION and UNION ALL in SQL Server
Have you ever needed to combine data from two different tables or queries in SQL Server? Maybe you’ve […]
DAX CASE Statement Functionality using IF, SWITCH and SWITCH True
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Windows Clustered MSDTC and SQL Server 2019 mishap
Introduction As you may know, in the early days of SQL Server Clustering, Microsoft advised to provide each […]
Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) in PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant
It’s a tale as old as time. You want to read data. Your mate wants to write […]
Fabric Database: Advanced Vector Search Features
A few weeks ago, I delivered some sessions about vector search in Fabric Databases and Azure SQL. […]
Fundamentals Week 2025 is Coming This Month! Get Your Tickets ...
You’ve attended some of my free online streams, read my blog posts, and you use the First Responder […]
Scales & Measurements
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Create Raw Zone Tables using Generative AI: Data Engineering with ...
Microsoft has been talking about the Modern Data Platform for a long time. I first heard about this […]
Free Webcast Tomorrow: Fundamentals of TempDB
It’s time for SQL Server Spring Training! I’m teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free […]
Sponsoring SQL Saturday Richmond This Week
On April 5, 2025, Simple Talk will be a sponsor at SQL Saturday #1106 in Richmond Virginia. […]
Managed Instance Gotchas – Error Conditions
I was recently on a project to migrate a very transactional installation of SQL Server to Azure […]
DeepSeek: What is new with this AI technology?
Introduction I was happily resting in Samaipata, a pre-Inca temple admiring the ruins with our guide when a […]
Load Data into Snowflake Using Python with Pandas
Loading data into Snowflake is a common need. Using Python and pandas is a common go-to solution […]
Basic Regex Emulator for SQL Server
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Implementing Fuzzy Search in SQL Server Using New Inbuilt Functions
In February 2025, Microsoft introduced new T-SQL functions in Azure SQL Database and SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric […]
[Video] Office Hours: Back in the Home Office
I’m back home after a 2-week Iceland vacation. Let’s catch up with your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s […]
The CREATE DOMAIN Statement
One of the least known, least used features of SQL is the CREATE DOMAIN statement. It does […]
Fabric: Query a SQL Endpoint from a Notebook
Let’s analyse why we would like to query an SQL Endpoint. Once we understand why, we can […]
Query Exercise Answer: Finding Email Addresses
For this week’s Query Exercise, your mission had two parts: Do a first pass search through the Users […]
Improving the Performance of UPDATE Statements in SQL Server
Introduction Performing bulk updates in SQL Server can be a resource-intensive operation, particularly when dealing with large datasets. […]
The Wide World of GiST Indexes
In Parts I (Solving the Overlap Query Problem in PostgreSQL) and II (Overlapping Ranges in Subsets […]
Why Your Azure SQL DB Hyperscale Bill is Higher Than ...
tl;dr: if you use Azure SQL DB Hyperscale’s auto-scaling, it’s probably not cutting your bill down because like […]
SQL Server JSON Functions JSON_OBJECTAGG and JSON_ARRAYAGG
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Dynamic T-SQL Script Parameterization Using Python
When working with SQL Server, there are times when you need to build SQL scripts dynamically. In many […]
Fabric Analytics for SQL folks: Part 1 – Fabric demystified
Summary In a landscape abundant with AI innovations and promises, a crucial question arises: « Is leveraging SQL and […]
MySQL vs PostgreSQL – String Datatypes
A very common task in creating a database is to store string data. For example, words, paragraph(s) […]
[Video] Office Hours: Waiting for the Hot Tub to Fill
While waiting for my Husavik hot tub to fill up, I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s […]
T-SQL Has Regex. Don’t Get Too Excited.
Regular expressions are a way of doing complex string searches. They can be really useful, but they have […]
Understanding SQL Server LEFT_SHIFT and RIGHT_SHIFT Functions
Introduction SQL Server 2022 introduced the LEFT_SHIFT and RIGHT_SHIFT functions, which allow you to manipulate numbers by shifting […]
AI Tools for Job Seekers – Salary
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Query Exercise: Looking for Email Addresses
“They put their password WHERE?!?” Personally identifiable information (PII) is freakin’ everywhere. When companies first start looking to […]
MySQL vs. PostgreSQL: Character Sets and Collations
This is part of a series of posts from Aisha Bukar comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL. You can […]
Free Webcast Tomorrow: Fundamentals of Query Tuning
It’s time for SQL Server Spring Training! I’m teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free […]
Distractions
The second I wrote down the idea for a blog posts on Distractions, I knew there had […]
Pitfalls to avoid while feeding events into CrowdStrike
Because it’s important to know when adversaries are scanning the network searching for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, unpatched systems or […]
Using SQL Server Stored Procedures with the Django ORM
There comes a time when the built-in ORM just isn’t enough. You might have complex queries or performance-critical […]
Data Streaming Databricks in Azure
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What’s Coming in SQL Server 2025, DMV Edition
As we approach the first public releases of SQL Server 2025, it’s fun to start spelunking through things […]
Announcing Fundamentals Week 2025!
You’ve attended some of my free online streams, read my blog posts, and you use the First Responder […]