Office Hours at the PASS Summit in Seattle
I’m in Seattle this week for the PASS Data Community Summit. Before the pre-conference sessions started, I sat down to take your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 02:29 MyTeaGotCol …
What’s In Your Development Database? The Answer: Production Data
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The SQLskills Black Friday Super Sale!
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Connecting to MongoDB through Python
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the items in the series, click here. This article is a bit of a departure from the previous articles in this series. Rather than focusing exclusively on MongoDB, I ex …
Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? November 2024 Edition
Is your company hiring for a database position as of November 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 …
Watch Me Stream at the PASS Summit for Free!
This week at the PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle, 15 sessions are getting streamed online for free! I’m proud to be one of ’em – my session’s on Friday. Here’s the lineup, all times Pacific: Wednesday: 8:15 AM – 9:30 …
Your Personal ChatGPT Tutorial
Introduction We are currently in a golden age of AI, with the emergence of large language models (LLMs) creating entirely new opportunities. This advancement is benefiting many industries. The technique of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has gaine …
Live webinar – Prioritizing security: Essential strategies for IT leaders
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Keeping up with the 2024 PASS Summit
In this post, I want to share a few places where you can keep up with what is going on at the PASS Summit, whether you are there or not. (Naturally it is WAY easier if you happen to be in Seattle with a ticket to attend, but it is too late for that sor …
AI and Databases
Although it is probably true to say that “AI is reshaping the landscape of database technology“, it’s also an over-simplification. The history of relational databases is more complex than this because the teams that created the first relational databas …
Our Annual Black Friday Sale Starts Now!
The wait is over: my annual Black Friday sale has officially launched! If you’ve been eyeing any of my SQL Server training courses, now is the time to act. You can snag deep discounts on all of my top-rated courses, designed to elevate your SQL skills …
A Guide to SQL Security in Django
The web apps we see today handle a lot of sensitive user data and this makes security of such applications very important. As developers, we need to be on guard against threats like SQL injection attacks. These types of attacks can slip malicious SQL c …
Optimize SQL LIKE Wildcard Searches
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Black Friday Super Sale!
It’s the time of year again where companies do crazy sales on the day after Thanksgiving in the US, and we’re doing the same! Starting at 4pm PST on Thursday, November 28th, we’ll be offering our lowest prices ever for our signature Blackbelt bundle wi …
[Video] Office Hours: Let’s Have a Drink
I was making myself a drink to film Office Hours and I realized I should just film it in my home bar. I mixed myself a gin & tonic and took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento: Here’s what we discussed: 00:00 Start 0 …