[Video] Office Hours in My Backyard
On a pleasantly mild morning, I sat down on the patio and took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:56 MyTeaGotCold: When going in to a database blind, do you worry at all ab …
Query Exercise: Fix This Computed Column.
Take any size of the Stack Overflow database and check out the WebsiteUrl column of the Users table: Sometimes it’s null, sometimes it’s an empty string, sometimes it’s populated but the URL isn’t valid. Let’s say that alo …
Auditing SQL Server – Part 2 – Hardware Audit
This is the second part of my series on auditing SQL Server. In the first part, I discussed basic server discovery and documentation. It covered some items to check at the hardware level and configuration items, but this section gets into more detailed …
Configure Microsoft Fabric Database Mirroring for Snowflake
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Four steps towards tackling the complexity of managing multiple database platforms
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Updated, Larger Stack Overflow Demo Database
Stack Overflow publishes a data dump with all user-contributed content, and it’s a fun set of data to use for demos. I took the 2024-April data dump, and imported it into a Microsoft SQL Server database. It’s an 31GB torrent (magnet) that e …
T-SQL Tuesday #176 Roundup of advice
There was a lot of great advice, and I really wonder how much of this I would have listened to myself back in the day. In no order other than the order I found them in my comments and then XTwitter. This was fun, and if you are just now hearing of T-SQ …
Making Temporal Databases Work. Part 2: Computing Aggregates Across Temporal Versions
The temporal database is a database that can keep information on time when the facts represented in the database were, are, or will be valid. We briefly described major concepts of temporal databases and discussed types of queries that such databases c …
Prompt+ EAP: your AI-powered database development partner in the making
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Exploring Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for Butterfly Image Generation
Introduction In the realm of image generation, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have emerged as powerful tools, capable of creating remarkably realistic visuals. For professionals with decades of experience, witnessing this transformation is akin …
Add Indexes to Improve SQL DELETE Performance
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Streaming Event Data through RabbitMQ to a Microsoft Fabric Eventstream
In this fast-changing world of data, businesses are looking for more insights in their data to remain competitive. They want these insights delivered faster and faster, up to the point where real-time intelligence – through the use of streaming data – …
Save $200 by registering for a PASS Summit 2024 3-day ticket before July 16
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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 items in the series, click here. Throughout this series, I’ve discussed various ways to work with the documents in a MongoDB collection. If you’ve been following …
[Video] Office Hours in Bulgaria
I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento while in front of the National Gallery for Foreign Art in Sofia. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 03:12 MyTeaGotCold: If all of my columns are nvarchar, is the …