Effective Strategies for Storing and Parsing JSON in SQL Server
Like XML, JSON is an open standard storage format for data, metadata, parameters, or other unstructured or […]
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Introducing Schema Validation in MongoDB
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the […]
Auditing SQL Server – Part 4 – Database Configuration Audit
This continues my series on auditing SQL Server. The fist parts covered discovery and documentation, server level […]
LIKE Constraints
In this article, I will cover a bit about the LIKE operator, including how it works, and […]
PostgreSQL Partitioning: The Most Useful Feature You May Never Have ...
Partitioning in PostgreSQL was for many years a feature almost entirely ignored, and even today is often […]
Change Data Capture Pipeline Automation in Snowflake
This article offers technical guidance on automating updates and tracking changes of data examples using Snowflake’s CDC […]
Thoughts Before Speaking at the Software Architecture Conference
Tomorrow, August 15, I have yet another conference where I’ll speak about MySQL’s performance. To be more […]
MySQL vs PostgreSQL: Which Open-Source Database is right for you?
When I joined a growing startup company as a backend developer, we were at crossroads choosing between […]
MySQL Index Overviews: B-Tree Indexes
In this first entry in a multipart series on indexes, I will cover the most important index […]
Days of the Week, Bitwise Edition
I recently had to help support synchronization and distribution of workloads between multiple servers. Some of this […]
5 Ways to Spend Your 2024 Learning and Development Budget ...
Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at […]
Fall is around the corner, and hence the PASS Data ...
Welcome to the dog days of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. It is hot, so if you […]
How to Stream Data from Azure Event Hubs into a ...
At Microsoft Build 2024, Real-Time Intelligence was announced with the Real-Time hub as its centralized location for […]
Index cleanup : Harder than it looks
I’m not the first person to write about cleaning up unused or redundant indexes. You can read […]
An Introduction to Frappe Framework: Features and Benefits
Frappe is a full-stack, battery-included web framework with MariaDB as the database, written in Python and JavaScript. […]
Auditing SQL Server – Part 2 – Hardware Audit
This is the second part of my series on auditing SQL Server. In the first part, I […]
T-SQL Tuesday #176 Roundup of advice
There was a lot of great advice, and I really wonder how much of this I would […]
Making Temporal Databases Work. Part 2: Computing Aggregates Across Temporal ...
The temporal database is a database that can keep information on time when the facts represented in […]
Working with Documents in the MongoDB Compass GUI
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the […]
Hot off the press
Every day an avalanche of news hits us from all directions in all kinds of media. So […]
It’s a recovery strategy, not a backup strategy
I’ve talked about it before; you shouldn’t have a backup strategy, you should have a recovery strategy. […]
Microsoft Fabric, the Land of Wizards and Trolls
In my previous article (What is Microsoft Fabric All About) I explained what Microsoft Fabric is, how […]
T-SQL Tuesday #176: One piece of advice you wish Past ...
After so many years, here in July 2024, I am finally hosting T-SQL Tuesday. The challenge One […]
Extending Get-Process to show the Process Chain using PowerShell Proxy ...
A proxy function or wrapper function allows you to deploy a custom version of a function or […]
Saving Data Historically with Temporal Tables: Part 1: Queries
In this article we discuss how to store data temporally in PostgreSQL. Temporal database store data in […]
Deleting Documents from a MongoDB Collection
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the […]
XML Performance Tuning and Added Options
SQL Server provides a variety of ways to tune XML so that it provides consistent performance, consumes […]
Choosing Between the Lakehouse and Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric is a new centralized, AI-powered cloud data platform hosted by Microsoft. It combines several services […]
Concepts and Issues in Test Data Generation
Data generation is the science and art of providing data for database development work that is as […]
Sails.js for web development
Sails.js is a robust web development framework that runs on top of Node.js and uses JavaScript’s asynchronous […]
Auditing SQL Server – Part 1 – Discovery and Documentation
Inheriting a server, whether as an inexperienced user or an experienced DBA, has many challenges. It’s very […]
The signs of a new era: Prompt Injection
More than 20 years ago, I wrote a book about SQL Injection and how dangerous it can […]
Effective Strategies for Storing and Parsing XML in SQL Server
XML is a common storage format for data, metadata, parameters, or other semi-structured data. Because of this, […]
Powershell and SQL on the River
We are having a conference in Chattanooga, TN on Aug 16 and 17, the primary topics of […]
Snake draft sorting in SQL Server, part 4
In the previous posts in this series (part 1, part 2, part 3), I described how I […]
The CHECK() Constraint
One of the many ways a relational table differs from the file structures used by pre-relational storage […]
Exploring MVCC and InnoDB’s Multi-Versioning Technique
In the realm of relational databases, MySQL stands out as one of the most popular choices. Maximizing […]
Optimizing MySQL: Deleting Data
In the previous parts of these MySQL optimization series, we told you how query optimization works on […]
Snake draft sorting in SQL Server, part 3
In part 2 of this series, I showed an example implementation of distributing a long-running workload in […]
T-SQL Tuesday #174: Your Favorite Job Interview Question?
T-SQL Tuesday is something I don’t participate in nearly enough. When I saw Kevin Feasel’s invitation for […]
PowerBI premium capacity administration: dataset monitoring and tuning
Over the years Power BI has evolved into a complex and varied ecosystem of tools and solutions, […]
How to Build Metadata Driven Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric
Over the past years, “traditional” ETL development has morphed into data engineering, which has a more disciplined […]
PySpark Secrets to use with Fabric
PySpark is a powerful language for data manipulation and it’s full of tricks. Let’s discover some of […]
Updating Documents in MongoDB
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the […]
Database technology learning resources
Before I started as the editor of Simple Talk, I worked on SQL Server. Only. (Ok, I […]
Building RESTful APIs in Rust With Actix and Diesel
There are many packages and tools that you can use to facilitate your API development with Rust. […]
Working with IAsyncEnumerable in C#
IAsyncEnumerable is a powerful interface introduced in C# 8.0 that allows you to work with sequences of […]
Recursive CTEs: Transforming and Analyzing Data in PostgreSQL, Part 3
The first two articles in this series demonstrated how PostgreSQL is a capable tool for ELT – […]
Building a Culture of Data: The Technical Aspects
In the first part of this two-part series, I covered the mostly non-technical aspects of building a […]