It’s Probably Time to Upgrade Your Cloud VMs
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Azure Data Studio – A First Look
Introduction Azure Data Studio is the next iteration in Microsoft’s development of a cross-platform client tool for developing code and managing databases on-premises and in the cloud. Azure Data Studio was originally released in preview mode as SQL Op …
Security in the cloud: Whose responsibility is it?
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An editor’s biggest headache: Plagiarism
As an editor working with other people’s technical writing for many years, you might guess that either language skills or technical abilities would be the largest issue that you deal with. Both of these provide plenty of challenges, but the bigge …
Office Hours: “Read This” Edition
Sometimes when people post questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, the answer is just a link, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn’t make sense for me to rehash something that’s been covered really well online, and I want to link …
Is your organization using MongoDB? Help the Redgate Flyway team understand your pain points
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The PASS Data Community Summit First Timer Guide
Edwin Sarmiento has been producing a first-timer’s guide for the PASS Data Community Summit since 2016. He has updated this for 2023 and you can see Edward’s announcement of the guide on Twitter here. Download the guide and you’ll find some amazing inf …
Time-Series Data Analysis with Apache Druid
In the era of data-driven decision-making, the ability to efficiently analyze and derive insights from time-series data is of paramount importance. Apache Druid, a cutting-edge open-source data store and analytics platform, has emerged as a compelling …
[Video] Office Hours: Having a Bad Day Edition
The first day back after a long vacation is always rough, and today’s no exception. I took your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento in an effort to turn things around and get back in the groove: Here’s what we covered: 00: …
The NTILE Function
The SQL NTILE() is a window function that allows you to break a table into a specified number of approximately equal groups, or <bucket count>. For each row in a grouping, the NTILE() function assigns a bucket number representing the group to whi …
Fabric Data Warehouse News you need to know
Microsoft Fabric, including the Data Warehouse, evolves faster than we can analyze and write about it. Here I’m summarizing the most recent news I looked at. Clone Table We have a specific statement to clone a table. But what exactly does it mean …
[Video] Office Hours: Yes, I’m In the Same Shirt
Why yes, I’m wearing the same shirt as the video from “yesterday”. Why do you ask? Stop paying attention to that, and check out the top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00 …
Timescale Launches Dynamic PostgreSQL, the Cost-Effective Alternative to Serverless and Peak-Allocation Pay Models
NEW YORK – November 6, 2023 – Timescale, the cloud database company, has announced the launch of their Dynamic PostgreSQL product for business applications to more efficiently utilize their database compute and storage resources, even with variable or …
Free Webcast: How to Think Like the Engine, Live
You’re comfortable writing queries to get the data you need. But you’re uncomfortable if someone asks you how it works, how SQL Server and Azure SQL DB turn your queries into results. You know there are execution plans, but … you’re u …
Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? November 2023 Edition
Is your company hiring for a database position as of November 2023? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must i …