It’s Probably Time to Upgrade Your Cloud VMs
If you’ve been in Azure or Amazon for a few years, you’re probably on old, slow hardware.
2023-11-13
Articles
Security in the cloud: Whose responsibility is it?
While the cloud is recognized as more secure than on-premises servers and infrastructures, it does come with the often talked about shared responsibility model. Cloud providers are responsible for security ‘of’ the cloud, while their clients are responsible for security ‘in’ the cloud. Find out more in this Q&A with Dustin Dorsey
2023-11-13
The PASS Data Community Summit First Timer Guide
The 2023 First-Timer guide to the PASS Data Community Summit is available from Edwin Sarmiento
2023-11-10
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Time-Series Data Analysis with Apache Druid
Learn the basics of Apache Druid and how it can be used to ingest data into a data lake.
2023-11-10
14,381 reads
Is your organization using MongoDB? Help the Redgate Flyway team understand your pain points
Is MongoDB in use within your organization? The Flyway development team is adding MongoDB support into Flyway and would like to better understand the current pain points. If you are able help, or are interested in finding out more, please participate in our 5-minute survey.
2023-11-10
Using Notebooks in Azure Data Studio
Learn how to use the notebook feature of Azure Data Studio to keep a set of queries together with some documentation.
2023-11-09 (first published: 2019-04-11)
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Timescale Launches Dynamic PostgreSQL, the Cost-Effective Alternative to Serverless and Peak-Allocation Pay Models
New solution allows developers and teams to “buy the base and rent the peak” when provisioning for variable workloads without wastage or performance tradeoffs
2023-11-08
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Something’s Up with Parallelism in Azure SQL DB Serverless
Or perhaps another way to phrase that is, Microsoft is up to something with parallelism. I don’t know how long it’s been this way – could even be since the launch of Azure SQL DB Serverless – but I just now noticed it while helping a client with a slow query.
2023-11-08
SQL Server and Python Tutorial
This article will show the basic outline for how Python scripts can access and work with data in SQL Server.
2023-11-06
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Don’t use DISTINCT as a “join-fixer”
I’ve quietly resolved performance issues by re-writing slow queries to avoid DISTINCT. Often, the DISTINCT is there only to serve as a “join-fixer,” and I can explain what that means using an example.
2023-11-06
Blogs
2024 PASS Data Community Summit Prep
By Steve Jones
Next week is the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle. I’ll be traveling...
A New Word: Bye-over
By Steve Jones
bye-over – n. the sheepish casual vibe between two people who’ve shred an emotional...
Free webinar – Tackling the Gaps and Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions
I’m hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM...
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Temporary Table Problem
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Question of the Day
Incremental Statistics
I have run this on SQL Server 2022 for the Sales database:
ALTER DATABASE Sales SET AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS ON (INCREMENTAL = ON)I then run this in the Sales database:
USE Sales GO CREATE STATISTICS CustomerStats1 ON dbo.Customer (CustomerKey, EmailAddress) WITH INCREMENTAL = OFFThe dbo.Customer table is partitioned. How are statistics created? See possible answers