One of the many ways a relational table differs from the file structures used by pre-relational storage systems is that the tables, rows and columns can have constraints on them. This allows you to reduce the types of bad data that can be loaded into your tables.
2024-06-17
Fine-grained access control for stored procedures using a programmable database proxy
2024-06-14
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Microsoft Power BI Desktop provides a wide variety of visuals to its users. Sometimes, one wants to conduct a comparative analysis, a simple way to explore the relationship between the data categories within a set hierarchy. Hence, when a decision revolves around understanding the relationship of each element, this visual can provide an insightful analysis. This article will highlight all the steps to create a treemap chart in Power BI Desktop.
2024-06-14
By using input from real memory consumption during query execution, Memory Grant input Persistence in SQL Server 2022 is a potent feature that helps optimize query performance. In order to improve the accuracy of memory grant calculations for subsequent executions of the same or comparable queries, SQL Server gathers and stores this information.
2024-06-12
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Two new open-source extensions from Timescale make PostgreSQL even better for AI applications, unlocking large-scale, high-performance AI use cases previously only achievable with specialized vector databases like Pinecone.
2024-06-12
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In the previous posts in this series (part 1, part 2, part 3), I described how I have optimized a long-running set of routines by processing databases, tables, and even subsets of tables in parallel. This leads to many separate jobs that all kick off at roughly the same time
2024-06-12
This article shows how to configure database mirroring from CosmosDB to Microsoft Fabric.
2024-06-10
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In this article, we look at how to build a slicer visual in Power BI and how to create a custom sort order for the slicer values.
2024-06-10
How easily can we find tables with dropped columns that need cleanup?
2024-06-07
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Microsoft Azure offers Azure Elastic Job agent as a managed service, enabling efficient scheduling of T-SQL workloads on Azure SQL Databases. Learn how to configure the service in this article.
2024-06-07 (first published: 2024-05-24)
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By Steve Jones
The season 1, seventh episode of Simple Talks is out. Check it out, with...
By Steve Jones
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