Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? December 2024 Edition
Is your company hiring for a database position as of December 2024? 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 …
Announcing the Holiday Sale
Our annual Black Friday sale is over, but we’ve got a simple sale for folks who couldn’t get in on that action. Here’s the lineup: Fundamentals AND Mastering$1,095per yearThe best value!Includes all of my Fundamentals of SQL Server an …
An introduction to Terraform
My first exposure to Terraform was when I started to work with data in the AWS cloud. As a Cloud Data Engineer I was expected to cover a wide range of infrastructure provisioning so I found myself having to learn rather more about cloud infrastructure …
SQL IS NULL and SQL IS NOT NULL Examples
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Overlapping Ranges in Subsets in PostgreSQL
In Part I of this series, we explored overlap queries and the problems that accompany them, along with ways to improve their performance. We concluded by defining an overlap query in terms of timestamp ranges, which allowed us to use a new index type – …
[Video] Office Hours: Car in the Dining Room Edition
What, doesn’t everyone park a convertible in their dining room? I address the pink elephant in the room, and then take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 01:03 MyTeaGotCold: Ha …
Execute Stored Procedures in the Microsoft GraphQL API
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Simplify Data Loading with Fivetran (HVR): Data Engineering with Fabric
Many companies have technical debt which consists of applications and/or databases that are no longer in support or cannot be upgraded. How can we get this data in an Azure Data Lake when the size of the tables are large and there are not slowly chang …
Working with MongoDB Indexes
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 covered a number of topics about working with MongoDB collections and their data. One topic I have n …
Making Your Learning Plan for 2025
This week is my annual Black Friday sale, and over and over, folks buy the Fundamentals & Mastering Bundle because it’s such a good deal. But then they let it sit in their accounts. Time flies by, and next thing you know, an entire year has g …
Essential Strategies for Optimizing Snowflake Performance and Reducing Costs
In today’s data-driven enterprise environment, businesses increasingly rely on Snowflake’s cloud data warehouse for handling large-scale data analytics and storage needs. However, optimizing Snowflake performance is crucial to manage growing data wareh …
This Is It! Our Annual Black Friday Sale on SQL Server Training…
You’ve been eyeing my training classes all year long, biting your lip with lustful hunger, wishing you could get the same quality of training that over 6,000 of your friends have attended. Now’s your chance! Fundamentals$195per yearThe best …
A First Look at SSMS 21
This isn’t really a first look, per se. I’ve seen Erin Stellato present on this a few times in MVP sessions and at the PASS Data Community Summit. However, this is a look on my machine, where I’m in control. The new version preview was announced recent …
[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Database Questions
I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. At one point, my camera overheats – hang in there, I get it fixed in a few seconds. Here’s what we discussed: 00:00 Start 01:59 MyTeaGotCold: Your HA/DR worksheet mention …
Hiring and Motivating Technical Polyglots in Data Analytics
In this article, I will discuss hiring and motivating technical polyglots. A polyglot is a person who speaks multiple languages at a conversational level, and according to preply.com, more than three languages. When it comes to spoken languages, I’m on …