We may need to share our Python desktop or console applications with business users or deploy these applications to multiple machines. However, there are some challenges in the delivery of Python applications.
2023-04-24
Steve takes a look at go-sqlcmd, the newest evolution of the sqlcmd command line tool.
2023-04-21
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Sometimes you might have your data within a SharePoint list, and you would prefer this dataset to be within a SharePoint folder instead for reasons like reporting in Power BI or Excel. You need to be able to move the data automatically from the SharePoint list to the SharePoint folder.
2023-04-21
The Tab Coloring component of SQL Prompt’s SSMS Tab management could save you from accidentally doing something apocalyptic on a production server, ever again.
2023-04-21
Firebase is a NoSQL database, while Supabase is a relational database. The type of software you’re constructing determines which database is best for your project.
2023-04-19
In 2023, connect, share & learn with like-minded peers, speakers, and industry leaders during the full week of data celebrations. Summit happens in person, from November 14th to 17th in Seattle. Check out the blog post to learn more.
2023-04-19
Learn how to create a copy of an existing database without any data using Integration Services.
2023-04-17
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Mistakes occasionally happen. Occasionally, you make some ill-judged 'refinements' to working code and now just wish you could rewind your tab back in time an hour and forget the whole sorry episode. Now and again, SSMS just conspires against you and crashes unexpectedly, and you lose all your currently open query tabs, some of which you hadn't saved. SQL History offers a useful safety net in the event of any of these unfortunate events.
2023-04-17
As much as we tell people to use SCHEMABINDING and avoid SELECT *, there is still a wide range of reasons people do not. A well-documented problem with SELECT * in views, specifically, is that the system caches the metadata about the view from the time the view was created, not when the view is queried. If the underlying table later changes, the view doesn't reflect the updated schema without refreshing, altering, or recreating the view. Wouldn't it be great if you could stop worrying about that scenario and have the system automatically keep the metadata in sync?
2023-04-17
This article looks at security mechanisms in the cloud that can help protect your data, with specific examples in AWS.
2023-04-14
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By Steve Jones
Next week is the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle. I’ll be traveling...
By Steve Jones
bye-over – n. the sheepish casual vibe between two people who’ve shred an emotional...
I’m hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM...
Hello everyone, I hope you can help me. I have a table with measurement...
You can't handle the truth!! (about data integrity) A few good database administrators https://www.helpmasterpro.com/blog/a-few-good-database-administrators/...
I have installed Machine Learning with SQL 2022 Enterprise Edition and installed and configured...
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