Should That Be One Update Statement or Multiple?
Let’s say we have a couple of update statements we need to run every 15 minutes in the Stack Overflow database, and we’ve built indexes to support them:
2024-11-20
Additional Articles
Explore Pandas in Python to Analyze and Manipulate Tabular Data
Learn how to use Pandas an open-source library for analyzing and manipulating tabular data in Python along with several examples.
2024-11-18
Making Temporal Databases Work, Part 3: Saving Data
In part three of this series, Boris Novikov looks at how data is saved and modified in a temporal database and what kind of integrity constraints are needed for temporal tables. If you haven’t seen parts one and two, don’t worry! Links are provided in the article, and we recommend checking them out first.
2024-11-15
Relationships with Microsoft Fabric GraphQL API
Learn how to join tables together when using the GraphQL API with Microsoft Fabric in this step-by-step article.
2024-11-13
How Many Indexes Is Too Many?
Let’s start with the Stack Overflow database (any size will work), drop all the indexes on the Users table, and run a delete:
2024-11-11
How To Embed Your Azure Logic Apps in a Metadata-driven Data Platform
In this article, I am going to explain how you can dial your productivity up to 11 when you’re dealing with a lot of Azure Logic Apps in your data platform.
2024-11-08
What’s In Your Development Database? The Answer: Production Data
Are your developers working with live production data, completely made-up synthetic data, or something in between? I posted a poll here on the blog and on a few of my social media feeds, and here were the results:
2024-11-06
Creating Views in MongoDB
Like many relational database systems, MongoDB supports the use of views. A view is a read-only object in a MongoDB
2024-11-04
Live webinar - Prioritizing security: Essential strategies for IT leaders
In today's rapidly evolving landscape, managing the security of large and complex database estates is a critical challenge for organizations. Join us for a webinar on Nov 21 covering “Prioritizing security: Essential strategies for IT leaders,” where Redgate’s security experts will share their tips on how you can safeguard your database estate and minimize reputational risk. There will also be a Q&A session where you can get expert advice from our panelists.
2024-11-04
Optimize SQL LIKE Wildcard Searches
Learn about different ways to improve the performance of full wild card text searches to find strings in SQL Server tables.
2024-11-01
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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