Who's Responsible?
If mistakes are made, employees can be held financially responsible by some companies. Do we need to worry about this in our industry?
First speakers announced for Summit 2023
Your first speakers in the lineup for PASS Data Community Summit 2023 have been announced! Check out the full details for this year's Pre-Cons and Learning Pathways, and find out why some of our speakers are particularly excited for what’s in store this year.
The SELECT Statement in Oracle
The SELECT statement is used to retrieve information from a database. Following the execution of a SELECT statement, a tabular result is held in a result table (called a result set). It allows you to select the table columns depending on a set of criteria. In this article, I will introduce the basic SELECT statement fetching data from just one table.
Advantages of Kappa architecture in the Modern Data Stack
A comparison of the lambda and kappa architectures for real time ingestion and analysis of big data.
Highly Skilled
The highly skilled people are changing and getting jobs. A recent report notes this is of concern to executives and hiring practices may be changing. Steve has a few hints for how you can grow your own career and find new opportunities.
ISJSON enhancements in SQL Server for valid JSON format for a Value, Array or Object
SQL Server supports working with JSON data and provides many different functions that can be used. SQL Server 2022 has expanded the ability to check if the JSON format is valid using the ISJSON function which we will cover in this article.
Overcoming Organization Challenges in Cloud Migration: A Webinar for Senior IT Leaders
Is your team looking to modernize and migrate your data but have questions about the complex organizational challenges? This webinar panel on June 29th covers all aspects of data modernization and migration that senior IT leaders should be aware of, including organization culture, communication, and politics. Why not send it to your boss?
Same Language, Different Words
I had to come to the Redgate office in Cambridge this past week for a department onsite. As a result, my wife and I were able to come early for a few days adventuring together, the first trip we've taken by ourselves in nearly seven years. As a large family with six kids, it takes […]
Free Tools, Does Innovation Matter?
Today we have a guest editorial from Brian Walker, the developer for SQLFacts. He discusses the value from his toolkit and why it can be useful for developers.
Horizontal Trees
Introduction The sp_HorizontalTree procedure introduced here may be used to audit tables with dependent columns. A column is dependent on another if the meaning of the first column depends on the meaning of the second. For example, in a table containing accounting information, the meaning of a Fiscal Quarter column depends on the Fiscal Year to […]
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Projecting Disk Space
By Steve Jones
One of the things that many DBAs struggle with is managing space across an...
SQL from A to Z: Your Path to SQL Mastery this Fall
I'm excited to tell you about the "SQL from A to Z" learning track....
Introduction to Advanced Analytics
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Forums
The Cloud Security Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Cloud Security Problem, which...
problem with PIVOT Table
Thanks in Advance! I'm having trouble grouping all counts and sums on one line...
Merge rows in SQL
I have a table like below ID Ident source val opendate closedate IsActive --------------------------------------------------------...
Question of the Day
AUTO_DROP Statistics
In SQL Server 2022, what does this statement do?
CREATE STATISTICS CustomerStats1 ON DimCustomer (CustomerKey, EmailAddress) WITH AUTO_DROP = ONSee possible answers