I took part in a podcast this week, Arrested DevOps. I did one with them once before, almost ten years ago. The host and I were both a little surprised that it had been so long. This caused us to look back a bit. Interestingly enough, ten years ago meant I was only about two […]
Reviewing Pull Requests (PR) is something that developers should take seriously, but Steve doesn't think this always happens.
A problem with the configuration of Microsoft Defender caused all activity on the server to get delayed.
Security is a concern whether it be on-premises or cloud-native. Google Cloud offers many products and services including SQL Server. What are some of the security controls that should be considered when using Google Cloud services?
You’ve got an existing application with a database back end. You’re thinking about changing the database, and you don’t wanna break stuff.
Today Steve wonders to which version you would upgrade your SQL Server instances. There should be a minimum version you would try to reach.
Get ready to be blown away! The highly anticipated Microsoft Build in May 2023 has finally unveiled its latest and greatest creation: the incredible Microsoft Fabric - an unparalleled Data Intelligence platform that is guaranteed to revolutionize the tech world! fig 1: OneLake for all Data One of the most exciting things in Fabric I […]
I have come across a lot of use cases for manufacturing rows on the fly, aside from the common goal of populating a large data set such as a numbers or calendar table. A few favorites include building sample data, pivoting an unknown number of columns, data extrapolation, and filling gaps in date or time ranges.
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This article gives an overview of Amazon Redshift, the cloud data warehouse in AWS.
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Good Afternoon, We recently procured a service management software for our company, which uses...
In SQL Server 2022, what does this statement do?
CREATE STATISTICS CustomerStats1 ON DimCustomer (CustomerKey, EmailAddress) WITH AUTO_DROP = ONSee possible answers