Who’s Changing the Table? Answers and Discussion
Your challenge for this week was to find out who keeps mangling the contents of the AboutMe column in the Stack Overflow database.
2024-06-03
Additional Articles
SQL Bulk Insert Command Examples
Learn about the SQL Server BULK INSERT command and how to use it to import text data in a SQL Server database table.
2024-05-31
SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Spring 2024
The short story: SQL Server 2019 appears poised to swallow the SQL Server market altogether, hahaha.
2024-05-29
SQL Server Temporary Stored Procedures
Learn about creating stored procedures in the SQL Server tempdb database and why you might want to create temporary stored procedures.
2024-05-27
How to Build Metadata Driven Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric
Over the past years, “traditional” ETL development has morphed into data engineering, which has a more disciplined software engineering approach. One of the benefits of having a more code-based approach in data pipelines is that it has become easier to build metadata driven pipelines.
2024-05-24
Troubleshoot SQL Server Always On Availability Groups with SQL LogScout
We experienced several unplanned outages and failovers on our SQL Server Always On Availability Groups. We want to know the root cause to prevent them from happening in the future. How do we identify the root causes of unplanned Availability Group outages and failovers?
2024-05-22
Recursive CTEs: Transforming and Analyzing Data in PostgreSQL, Part 3
The first two articles in this series demonstrated how PostgreSQL is a capable tool for ELT – taking raw input and transforming it into usable data for querying and analyzing. We used sample data from the Advent of Code 2023 to demonstrate some of the ELT techniques in PostgreSQL.
2024-05-20
SQL Replication Error - the row was not found at the Subscriber when applying the replicated UPDATE command
Learn how to fix replication error the row was not found at the Subscriber when applying the replicated UPDATE command for Table with Primary Key(s).
2024-05-17
Building a Culture of Data: The Technical Aspects
In the first part of this two-part series, I covered the mostly non-technical aspects of building a data culture. While the lion’s share of the work will be getting people to work together and embrace ever deeper use of data, as a reader of Simple-Talk, a lot of this transition will be technical.
2024-05-15
Read Data Stored in a Lake Database using Azure Synapse Analytics
In this article, we look at how to read data stored in a lake database using Azure Synapse Analytics to help reduce overall Azure costs.
2024-05-13
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
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Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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