Your Favorite Blog Posts & Videos from 2024
The year is coming to a close, so it’s time to look back on your favorite stuff from […]
Archives du mois : décembre 2024
Simple Talk 2024 Year in Review
Happy New Year to all of the Simple talk readers! What a year this has been. I […]
Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for December 2024
If there was ever a release you could skip, this is probably the one, because you could count […]
GUID in SQL Server
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How to Attach and Detach Databases in SQL Server
Introduction Managing databases in SQL Server requires a solid understanding of various methods for transferring and maintaining data. […]
Introduction to MySQL Shell and Basic Configuration Management (Part 1)
The database is an important part of any application and setting it up correctly is key to […]
Working Today? Take a Break to Fill Out the Annual ...
Working today? You’re not alone. As a small business person, I tend to find myself working on emails, […]
SQL Server Forced Plans Overwite the Query Hash
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How to Repair Corrupt MySQL Tables
In the modern world, the companies are not solely dependent on a specific database server platform. There are […]
[Video] Office Hours in Kyoto, Japan
My Asian vacation continues in Kyoto, the City of a Thousand Temples. They’re not playing around – the […]
Convert Excel Workbooks to CSV with Microsoft Fabric
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The Ebb and Flow of AI
It’s the end of the year. Everybody’s coasting and looking back. Let’s kick our heels up, get comfortable, […]
Frappe’s Configuration vs Laravel’s Code-Centric Customisation
This article compares the Frappe and the Laravel frameworks, focusing on key technical differences in customization, database […]
Attaching an SQL Server database without Transaction Log Files through ...
Introduction In SQL Server, the transaction log file is essential for keeping your database reliable and durable. It […]
Connecting Streamlit to Upload Data to Snowflake
Introduction We often see and think of reporting as visualizing the already available data from a database and […]
Data Warehouse Considerations – SCD Type 2 vs Overwrite Dimension ...
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The ROI of SQL Prompt
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[Video] Office Hours in Osaka, Japan
Kon’nichiwa! My vacation tour continues in Osaka, Japan, a city famous for its street food, nightlife, and host […]
How to Explain What We Do
One of my favorite uses for AI is to ask it to explain a concept using wildly unusual […]
Why a Self-Join Requires Halloween Protection
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Save the date for PASS Summit 2025!
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Are You Underpaid? Let’s Find Out! My Annual Salary Survey ...
Every year, I run a salary survey to help folks have better discussions with their managers about salaries, […]
When Should You Employ Snowflake Materialized Views?
I’ve used both Snowflake views and materialized views with varying degrees of success. Both have their place […]
Feed SQL Server logs into SIEM
We sometimes complain that the Security Operations Center (SOC) doesn’t spot cyber-attacks on time, but maybe we’re not […]
Build a Streaming Data Architecture with Apache Kafka and Zookeeper
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PASS Summit is going on tour in 2025!
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Getting Started with the Data API Builder
Earlier this year I had a PM at Microsoft reach out and ask me what I thought about […]
How to Use Github in SSMS v21
SQL Server Management Studio v21 added native Git support, making it easier to use source control natively inside […]
TSQL Tuesday #181 – The first SQL Server Feature that ...
First off, thank you to Kevin Chant for hosting TSQL Tuesday this month. And equally, thank you […]
[Video] Office Hours in Zhengzhou, China
For the rest of December, I’m out vacationing in China and Japan. For this episode, I’m coming to […]
Aggregate Functions in Power BI including Running Total, Running Average ...
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Virtualizing GCP data by using Fabric Shortcuts: Data Engineering with ...
Before the invention of shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric, big data engineers had to create pipelines to read data […]
A gentle introduction to dbt
In a typical data warehouse project, data is loaded, transformed and stored into a data store using […]
How to Send Email with SQL Server’s sp_send_dbmail
So you’re writing T-SQL code and you’ve decided that you want to send emails to customers, employees, or […]
T-SQL Tuesday #181: Query Store and its evolution
Query Store. This is my choice in relation to “What feature release made you say WOW!”, the […]
The Paradox of NOLOCK: How Dirty Reads Can Sometimes Be ...
Every SQL Server developer has heard it: « Don’t use NOLOCK in production! » But this common rule isn’t as […]
SQLBits is Coming Back to London in June 2025!
I used to feel bad saying that any one conference is “my favorite” because I worried that other […]
Calculate a Moving Average with T-SQL Windowing Functions
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JSON in PostgreSQL
Overview In this article, we will learn about JSON datatypes, functions, operators in PostgreSQL and how to use […]
Introduction to Oracle Database for Database Professionals
Oracle Database, often referred to simply as Oracle, is one of the most powerful and widely used […]
Granting Permissions in a Fabric Data Warehouse and Lakehouse
We are becoming used to being a bit lazy when granting permissions to Data Warehouses and lakehouses […]
[Video] Office Hours at the Petit Ermitage in LA
I went to LA for the opening week of Somni, a gorgeous restaurant in LA, and took your […]
Love Your Conference Sponsors
You probably already realize this, but I work for a company that sponsors conferences. As the editor […]
MySQL Index Deep Dive: Clustered B-Tree Indexes
If you’re a frequent reader of the Simple-Talk blog, you’re no stranger to indexes as we’ve covered […]
Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? December 2024 ...
Is your company hiring for a database position as of December 2024? Do you wanna work with the […]
Announcing the Holiday Sale
Our annual Black Friday sale is over, but we’ve got a simple sale for folks who couldn’t get […]
An introduction to Terraform
My first exposure to Terraform was when I started to work with data in the AWS cloud. As […]
SQL IS NULL and SQL IS NOT NULL Examples
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