Actively Choosing Compatibility
Do you actively choose which compatibility level makes sense for your SQL Server databases? Or do you just take the defaults? Steve has a few thoughts today on actively managing your system.
Building a Kimball Data Warehouse
Learn about the Kimball method for data warehouses and how you can get started building one.
Calculating Prime Numbers With One Query
This article looks at calculating prime numbers less than n with one query.
Are PostgreSQL memory parameters magic?
Ordinary PostgreSQL users often do not know that PostgreSQL configuration parameters exist, let alone what they are and what they mean. Some parameter tuning can improve the database performance, and we are usually talking about 10%, 20%, and in rare cases, up to 50% performance improvement.
T-SQL Scripts to generate the HTML-formatted database storage report
This article will show how to generate an HTML formatted report of your disk space.
Using the Lightweight Tools
This week Steve is interested in whether the newer lightweight environments, like VS Code and Azure Data Studio, are capturing your interest.
Flyway for SQL Server Data Tools Users
If you are using SSDT for authoring, building, debugging, and publishing a database project, how do you change to, or preferably migrate towards, a Flyway-based database development? Flyway doesn't need to replace any code part of SSDT, but if allowed to manage every release candidate, it does allow for much cleaner branching, merging, and deployments.
Multiple Relationships on the same Table in a Power BI Data Model
This article will cover how to create multiple relationships between the same tables in Power BI to build the data model you need.
Software Flexibility (Avoiding the next hack)
As computer scientists, it often feels like our job is to tell the business user, "No, we can't do that because the software you asked for, and we built, doesn't allow it ..." Then, after a long and relatively silly meeting where your soul dies a little, the business user typically gets 80% of what […]
PostgreSQL Copy
In this article you will learn how to use the COPY command in PostgreSQL to copy a database or a table.
Blogs
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
By James Serra
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just...
Forums
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
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Designing SQL Server Pipelines That Are Ready for AI Before You Actually Need AI
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Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers