Office Hours, Silent Film Edition
Hey, remember in yesterday’s video how I said I was having a really bad day? Well, here’s how bad it was – I recorded two videos in a row, and I forgot to turn my microphone on for the second video. <sigh> So here are the questi …
SQL Server Table Design Guidelines – Data Types, Designing for Deletes and Primary Keys
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How to join the free PASS Data Community Summit Livestream from around the world
There’s nothing quite like attending PASS Data Community Summit in person to reconnect with friends and make new professional connections to boost your career. With Summit 2023 just around the corner (15-17 November, Seattle, WA), if you’d like to atte …
SQL Window Functions Series: RANK() and DENSE_RANK()
Welcome to the fascinating world of SQL Window functions! As we journey through the intricate labyrinths of databases and large datasets, having the right tools to aggregate, compute, and analyze data becomes indispensable. Today, we’ll explore two of …
Autonomous Databases?
I was talking to some people today about the concept of Autonomous Databases. The idea is that the database platform can do most, if not all, of the work of storing and managing data by itself. These are a few of the concepts that were shar …
The Curious Case of… missing 832 errors during memory corruption
(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us encountered when working with a client, doing some t …
The Black Friday Sale is Here: Save Big on Training & Apps
My Annual Black Friday Sale is On! I’m running a giant Black Friday sale on my training courses! You can choose from Fundamentals, Mastering, or both. The Fundamentals package is best if you’ve never been to a formal SQL Server training cla …
The Real Problem with SQL Server’s Licensing Costs
At least once a month, a client has The Postgres Conversation™ with me. It happens at the end of a consulting engagement, after we’ve talked about the work that the team needs to do in order to meet their performance objectives. A manager who …
Getting Started with MongoDB
MongoDB is a scalable database management system that stores data as documents in a collection, rather than as rows in a table, such as you’d find in a relational database system. A document is an object made up of one or more field and value pai …
It’s Probably Time to Upgrade Your Cloud VMs
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Azure Data Studio – A First Look
Introduction Azure Data Studio is the next iteration in Microsoft’s development of a cross-platform client tool for developing code and managing databases on-premises and in the cloud. Azure Data Studio was originally released in preview mode as SQL Op …
Security in the cloud: Whose responsibility is it?
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An editor’s biggest headache: Plagiarism
As an editor working with other people’s technical writing for many years, you might guess that either language skills or technical abilities would be the largest issue that you deal with. Both of these provide plenty of challenges, but the bigge …
Office Hours: “Read This” Edition
Sometimes when people post questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, the answer is just a link, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn’t make sense for me to rehash something that’s been covered really well online, and I want to link …
Is your organization using MongoDB? Help the Redgate Flyway team understand your pain points
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