Database Concurrency in PostgreSQL
Concurrency control is an essential aspect of database systems that deals with multiple concurrent transactions. PostgreSQL employs various techniques to ensure concurrent access to the database while maintaining data consistency using atomicity and is …
How Would You Design This: Tracking Travels
One of the challenges for many database developers is coming up with a good design that not only meets the specifications but also performs well in queries. Relational databases often seek some level of normalization, which reduces the update load for …
Data Transfer from Azure Blob Storage to Snowflake Using Pipelines
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PostgreSQL 101: The ten PostgreSQL extensions you need to know about
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Going to a conference where hardly anybody knows my name
On Friday and Saturday August 11 and 12, I am going to do something I haven’t done in a long time. I am going to a conference where I may not know anyone (I did learn about the conference from one of the people that run it who was also at SQL Sat …
[Video] Office Hours: Stump Me On SQL Server
I went through the top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento and discussed ’em live on my Twitch channel. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:39 tanchenglai: Hi Brent! We bought your Level 2 Bundle last year. Recent …
[Video] Office Hours: Extended Answers Edition
Y’all posted so many good questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento that I went longer than usual this time: Here’s what we covered in this episode: 00:00 Start 02:17 Tanchenglai: Hi Brent, recently we always ran into thread pool issue. …
Meet the Summit 2023 Sponsors
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Upserts in Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift was first announced in 2012 as a new cloud-based analytical data warehousing service. Since then, it has evolved into a robust analytical database that has become an essential tool for businesses of all sizes. With its roots in Postgres …
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A Beginners Guide to MySQL Replication Part 4: Using GTID-based Replication
Welcome back to another replication series! As a quick reminder, we explored various methods of using MySQL’s replication capabilities in our previous discussions. Initially, we employed the traditional binary-log-based replication approach to se …
T-SQL Tuesday #165 – My Experience with Database Job Titles
They mean very little. More on that after nothing that this is part of T-SQL Tuesday, and you can read the original invitation by clicking on the T-SQL Tuesday 165 invitation or the following images. I almost always forget that this is coming and …
Analyzing Prices of SQL Server Books, New & Used
While on a road trip, Richie stopped by a used bookstore (or would that be used book store?) and made an amusing observation about the relative value of different SQL Server books. I just had to go look at Amazon for some research. I’m listing pr …
The Curious Case of… recovering from a ransomware attack
(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 …
What Is an Execution Plan and How to Find It in PostgreSQL
In the last blog (When PostgreSQL Parameter Tuning is not the Answer), we compared several execution plans for a SQL statement as we made changes to parameters and indexes. Still, there was no mention of what an execution plan is, how one can obtain an …