State Transition Constraints
About two decades ago, I introduced the concept of transition constraints to show Data Validation in a […]
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Oracle ASM: Monitoring and Managing (Part 2)
In the first part of this series, we explored the fundamentals of Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)—a […]
Replacing a Column in a Large Active SQL Server Table
In a previous post I showed how to use a batching strategy to remove large amounts of […]
Getting started with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Along with its many other cloud services, Microsoft now offers Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, a […]
DevOps vs. SRE: Bridging the Gap, Not Building Walls (Part ...
Understanding the Divide — DevOps vs. SRE Explained The conversation around DevOps versus Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) […]
Replicating MySQL databases in Docker Containers
In my prior article, “Running a relational database with Docker”, I showed how to spin up a […]
Load Data into Snowflake Using Native Snowflake Connector for Python: ...
In our ongoing exploration of Snowflake data loading strategies, we’ve previously examined how to use pandas with […]
SQL Server 2025 : Zstandard Backup Compression
This article is part of a series of posts on the forthcoming SQL Server 2025 release. Once […]
TempDB Resource Governor Space Controls in SQL Server 2025
TempDB is a system database in SQL Server that manages temporary objects for all databases on a […]
The good, the bad, and the awful taste muscle memory ...
When I was traveling a while back, I grabbed a small white metal tube out of my […]
Sponsoring Scenic City Summit
For the second year in a row, Simple Talk will sponsor Scenic City Summit in Chattanooga, TN, […]
Securing PostgreSQL Against Injection, Misconfiguration, and Privilege Escalation
PostgreSQL is a robust and trusted database platform, but it’s not invincible. The PostgreSQL Global Development Group […]
Oracle ASM: A Simple Solution or Another Complexity? (part 1)
For highly performant Oracle databases, the storage must be scalable, resilient, and easy to manage—especially as infrastructure […]
MySQL vs. PostgreSQL: Date and Time Data Types
Date and time data types are important because they help track and manage time-based information in databases. […]
Moving from SQL to MongoDB’s MQL
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the […]
Using Parameters with DAX in Report Builder
This is something we expect to be simple, but it has a lot of secrets. Using parameters […]
Running a MySQL database in a Docker Container
Relational databases provide a structured approach for storing and organizing large volumes of data into tables consisting […]
DISTINCT and UNION: What happens when you use them together?
When I was perusing my LinkedIn feed the other day, I came across this thread about using […]
Data Encoding Schemes
You probably noticed that when you get a bill or bank statement, it uses the current modern […]
SQL Server Developer Standard Edition: A Gift to Developers!
This article is part of a series of posts on the forthcoming SQL Server 2025 release. Once […]
SQL Server 2025 is in Public Preview!
On Monday, May 19, 2025, SQL Server 2025 was announced as finally going to be in public […]
SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu 24.04 step by step
Microsoft does not yet support this edition of Ubuntu, but there are some workarounds to make it […]
First LLM Technical Editor Test – Office and Web-based Copilot ...
Next up, I am going to give Microsoft Copilot its chance to check for technical inaccuracies in […]
What are the Key DevOps Performance Metrics You Should Track?
Successful DevOps teams rely on data-driven decision-making to continuously improve software delivery and operational performance. Understanding the […]
MySQL Shell Basic Configuration Management (Part 4 – Optimizing MySQL ...
Welcome back to our journey of understanding MySQL performance tuning using MySQL Shell. So far, we’ve covered […]
Introduction to PostgreSQL for the Data Professional
Learning something new has elements of bliss and terror. We all know the bliss of learning something […]
Managed Instance Gotchas – Configuration Items
In my last post I described issues that might stop your migration to a SQL Server Managed […]
Recovering data in SQL Server without full backup
In more than 10 years of experience, I have dealt with cases where someone has performed incorrect […]
Parent – Child Task Automation in Snowflake via Task Graph
In the fast-paced world of business, fast, effective data management is crucial. One of the places where […]
Real-time Data Streaming in Snowflake
Real-time data ingestion has become essential for modern analytics and operational intelligence. Organizations across industries need to […]
Techniques to query Azure SQL’s new JSON Datatype
The new JSON field type and new functions in Azure SQL brings a new world of possibilities […]
Jacksonville SQL Saturday 2025 Roundup
Are SQL Saturdays finally back to the way they should be? This past weekend in Jacksonville Florida […]
MySQL Index Overviews: Hash Indexes
Welcome back to the MySQL indexing series! We’ve already covered the nuances surrounding indexes in MySQL as […]
Data-Based Movie Reviews: Moneyball
A while back, a friend of mine, who is big into baseball, tried to encourage me to […]
Query Lineage in Fabric Lakehouses
I already wrote about query performance analysis in lakehouses, but one secret was left behind: The capability […]
Purging Data from a Large Table in SQL Server
Purging data from a table is a common database maintenance task to prevent it from growing too […]
Working with the MongoDB Database Tools
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the […]
How to Load a Date Dimension in Microsoft Fabric using ...
With the popular data transformation tool dbt (data build tool), we have a bunch of interesting features […]
Sponsoring PGDay Chicago this week
On Friday, April 25, Simple Talk is excited to be a sponsor of PGDay Chicago 2025. This […]
Exploring the SQL Server CHOOSE Function
I preface a lot of what I write with whether or not it is for a “practical” […]
SQL Saturday Richmond Roundup
On the weekend of April 5, 2025, I attended (and Redgate sponsored) SQL Saturday Richmond. Having lived […]
A Method for Managing Hierarchies in PostgreSQL
The Postgres database management system was originally designed as object-relational. We remind why PostgreSQL is an object-relational […]
LLM Technical Editor Test – ChatGPT with a VERY wrong ...
As started in part 1 of this series, I have set out to test an LLMs ability […]
Announcing Database Frontiers: a Database Conference You Haven’t Yet Heard ...
Database Frontiers is a new database conference hitting the spotlight come October 15th, 2025. Here’s everything you […]
Oracle’s Limited Cloud Vendor Licensing
It’s nothing new for vendors to find ways to lock in customers to their products and cloud […]
New Series – Testing LLMs as Technical Editors
I spend a lot of editing articles from various authors about a wide variety of topics. I […]
Working with MongoDB Shell
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the […]
Data Elements on a Nominal Scale
“On a scale from 1 to 10, what color is your favorite letter of the alphabet?” –Slogan […]
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. […]