Bi-week... semi-week... fortnight... "every two weeks" Recently on the SQL Community Slack group, someone asked if there was a way to schedule a backup to run on alternate weeks. I'm not exactly sure why (maybe they wanted to run full and differential backups on alternating weeks), but yes, we can do that. In part one […]
2023-11-17
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In this second part of the Q&A with Dustin Dorsey, we asked him about how to get buy-in from security teams who are cautious by nature, how to encourage the wider IT team to accept their recommendations, and what additional challenges highly regulated sectors like healthcare and finance face.
2023-11-17
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.
2023-11-17
Learn how you can watch the sessions livestreamed from the PASS Data Community Summit 2023.
2023-11-15
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In this article, we look at three table design guidelines when building an SQL table including data types, designing for deletes, and primary keys
2023-11-15
See a first look at Azure Data Studio from Kenneth Igiri and read about his impressions.
2023-11-13
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If you’ve been in Azure or Amazon for a few years, you’re probably on old, slow hardware.
2023-11-13
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 2023 First-Timer guide to the PASS Data Community Summit is available from Edwin Sarmiento
2023-11-10
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Learn the basics of Apache Druid and how it can be used to ingest data into a data lake.
2023-11-10
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