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AI/Machine Learning/Cognitive Services

Roundtables: The AI Economy

From Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories

Recorded on August 10, 2023 The AI Economy Speaker...

AI Startup Anthropic Says New Models Cut Hallucination Risks

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

The startup says new versions of Claude will be tw...

Could Microsoft's AI Strategy Tank Its Reputation?

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Microsoft is making a high-stakes bet on AI. But w...

GenAI to Propel Global Robotics AI Chipset Market to New Heights

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Aided by the democratization of generative AI, the...

Administration of SQL Server

Mastering Microsoft SQL Server: Analyzing and Optimizing Complex Queries

From Dataversity

In the realm of database management, particularly ...

Archive SQL Server Data using the SQL OUTPUT Clause

From MSSQL Tips

This tip explores a better, more direct, and more ...

SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for March 2024

From Glenn Berry

Introduction These are my SQL Server Diagnostic In...

Instant File Initialization for the transaction log | SQL Server 2022 Hidden Gems | Data Exposed

From Azure SQL

Next in the SQL Server 2022 hidden gems series you...

Webcast on SQL Server Administration

From SQLServerCentral Blogs

I will be giving another Microsoft SQL Server-base...

bit Obscene Episode 2: SQL Server Agent Jobs

From Erik Darling Data

bit Obscene Episode 2: SQL Server Agent Jobs Going...

Don't Trust the Defaults

From SQLServerCentral Blogs

(2024-Mar-08) Software installation typically inv...

Azure SQL

Optimized locking in Azure SQL Database

Whether or not it’s a cloud offering that makes sense for you, Azure SQL Database is often the staging ground for new features that will eventually make it to all flavors of SQL Server. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced this magical-sounding feature, “optimized locking.” Instead of locking individual rows and pages for the life of the transaction, a single lock is held at the transaction level, and row and lock pages are taken and released as needed.

Career, Employment, and Certifications

4 women in tech describe times they made a difference

From AllAnalytics

Making a difference involves taking meaningful act...

Cloud - AWS

AWS Weekly Roundup — New models for Amazon Bedrock, CloudFront embedded POPs, and more — March 4, 2024

From AWS News Blog

This has been a busy week – we introduced a new ...

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS

From AWS News Blog

You told us one of the primary reasons to adopt Am...

Amazon RDS now supports io2 Block Express volumes for mission-critical database workloads

From AWS News Blog

March 7, 2024: Post updated to change GB to GiB. M...

AWS Follows Google Cloud in Ending Cloud Switching Costs

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

AWS' Sébastien Stormacq said removing data transf...

Get RDS Instance Type RAM in Terraform

From youdidwhatwithtsql.com

For a monitoring project I’m currently working o...

Cloud - Azure

SQLpassion Live Training about running SQL Server in Microsoft Azure

From SQLServerCentral Blogs

From April 24 – 25, 2024 I will run a brand-new ...

Reading Azure SQL audit log from Azure Storage using sys.fn_get_audit_file returns empty result

From Azure Database Support Blog

This blog post was created on March 6th, 2024. Whe...

Computing in the Cloud (Azure, Google, AWS)

Cloud VMs are Not an Architectural Failure on Your Part

From DCAC

With the demise of the #SQLHelp hashtag (well it s...

The Five Biggest Challenges with Large-Scale Cloud Migrations

From Dataversity

The popularity of cloud computing continues to gro...

Leveraging Cloud Automation to Manage Costs for Highly Unpredictable Workloads

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Businesses should adopt measures to automate their...

Can Platform Teams Improve Shared Services?

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

To revitalize shared services, organizations are s...

Explosion of Data in the Cloud Era Leading to Observability Complexity

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

There's just too many applications and too much da...

DMO/SMO/Powershell

PowerShell Dynamic Parameters and SQL Server

Have you ever been in a situation that you want to call a cmdlet or a function with a parameter that depends on a conditional criteria that is available as a list? In this article I will show a technique where you can use PowerShell Dynamic Parameters to assist the user with parameter values.

Data Science

How to Trust Your Telemetry Data

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

To effectively address the complexities of telemet...

Using analyzers in RavenDB indexing

From Ayende @ Rahien

We got an interesting question in the RavenDB Disc...

Data Warehousing

SQL Down Under show 85 with guest Bob Duffy discussing building data warehouses is now published

From The Bit Bucket

And another new SQL Down Under show is published! ...

Database Design, Theory and Development

Understanding the Importance of Data Lineage in Modern Data Management

The concept of data lineage has been around for many years, but it has become increasingly important in recent years due to the growth of big data and the increasing complexity of data processing systems. In today’s data-driven world, organizations are collecting and storing more data than ever before. This data is important for making informed business decisions, fueling innovation, and enabling organizations to better understand their customers and markets.

DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Video: Get Started with GitHub

From 36 Chambers – The Legendary Journeys

THE VIDEO THE SYNOPSIS In this video, we take a lo...

Friday Flyway Tips–Undoing Development Changes

From SQLServerCentral Blogs

I had a customer ask about undoing changes made by...

Redgate Test Data Manager: A Guide for the DevOps Manager

From Product learning – Redgate Software

Redgate Test Data Manager will prepare, manage and...

Machine Learning

Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

From Netflix TechBlog - Medium

David J. Berg, Romain Cledat, Kayla Seeley, Shasha...

Microsoft Fabric ( Azure Synapse Analytics, OneLake, ADLS, Data Science)

Scheduling and Monitoring Fabric Pipeline Executions

From Curated SQL

Andy Leonard shares a tip: The more I work with Mi...

Scheduling and Monitoring a Fabric Data Factory Pipeline Execution

From AndyLeonard.blog()

The more I work with Microsoft Fabric Data Factory...

Oracle/PostgreSQL/MySQL/other RDBMS

Deepak Mahto: Why I Love psql – PostgreSQL Terminal.

From Planet Postgres

At PGConf India 2024, I delivered a lightning talk...

Regina Obe: PostgreSQL Mistakes and How To Avoid them

From Planet Postgres

The adoption of PostgreSQL is growing each year. M...

Ryan Booz: PGSQL Phriday #016

From Planet Postgres

Invitation from Ryan Booz Many of the PostgreS...

David Z: Setting up a debugging environment in PostgreSQL to better understand OpenSSL APIs

From Planet Postgres

1. Overview In my previous blog, I discussed h...

Andrew Atkinson: Rails + Postgres Postgres.FM 086 — Extended blog post edition! ️

From Planet Postgres

I recently joined Michael and Nikolay as a guest o...

Elizabeth Garrett Christensen: Connecting QGIS to Postgres and PostGIS

From Planet Postgres

QGIS, the Quantum Geographic Information System, i...

MySQL INTO OUTFILE vs. INTO DUMPFILE

From Callihan Data

I haven’t had a MySQL post for awhile, so it’s...

Goutham Reddy Banala: Exploring JSONB in PostgreSQL

From Planet Postgres

PostgreSQL is a powerful Open-Source database mana...

Introducing PG Down Under – Focus on PostgreSQL

From The Bit Bucket

Welcome to PG Down Under! I've worked with data mo...

oded valin: Speed up PostgreSQL pgvector queries with indexes

From Planet Postgres

er sideUsing AI, it’s possible to find similar t...

Adrian Klaver: Using Polars & DuckDB with Postgres

From Planet Postgres

This post will look at two relatively new programs...

Henrietta Dombrovskaya: February 20 recording – finally!

From Planet Postgres

Here is

Eager Aggregation in SQL queries

Aggregation is a widely used way to summarize the content of a database. It is usually expressed with GROUP BY clause or just using aggregate functions (like COUNT or SUM). When the database engine executes a query with aggregations, it produces individual rows need to compute the required output and then performs the aggregation as (almost) last step. We discuss in this article how to re-write a query manually so that the order of operations will be different and when it can be beneficial.

Performance Tuning SQL Server

Implicit Conversion to Smaller Data Types?

From Deb the DBA

I’ve been working on a project where I have to d...

How To Tell If Lazy Table Spools Are Slowing Your SQL Server Queries Down, And Fix Them

From Erik Darling Data

How To Tell If Lazy Table Spools Are Slowing Your ...

Comparing Performance of TOP vs. MAX

From Andy Broadsword

Both TOP (1) and MAX can be used to identify t...

SQL Server Index Design: Getting Key Column Order Right

From Erik Darling Data

SQL Server Index Design: Getting Key Column Order ...

PowerPivot/PowerQuery/PowerBI

Improve data labels with format strings

From SQLBI

Learn different approaches to format your DAX meas...

TRY_CAST Arithmetic Overflow Error

From Purple Frog Systems

TRY_CAST() Arithmetic Overflow Error – How? It i...

Getting started with Visual Calcs in Power BI

From Guy in a Cube

It's been a long time coming but Visual Calculatio...

Professional Development

The Redgate Summit in Atlanta

From SQLServerCentral Blogs

Navigating the Database Landscape is the headline ...

Book Review: My Effin Life

From SQLServerCentral Blogs

This is very off topic, but I’ve been a fan of R...

We need to talk about the elephant in the room – the future of DBAs

From Eitan Blumin

Hey there, pull up a chair, and let’s have a rea...

Celebrating Strong Women

From AllAnalytics

When I first starting writing this blog, I thought...

Women in IT Face Challenges, but Mentors for AI Adoption Emerge

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Disparities for women in tech for persist, despite...

Security News and Issues

The Download: the mystery of LLMs, and the EU’s Big Tech crackdown

From Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories

This is today’s edition of The Download, our w...

The Insecurity of Video Doorbells

From Schneier on Security

Consumer Reports has analyzed a bunch of popular I...

White House Calls for Adoption of Memory-Safe Programming Languages to Prevent Cyber-Attacks

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

It’s time for software developers to reconsider ...

Welcoming the German Government to Have I Been Pwned

From Troy Hunt's Blog

Back in 2018, we started making Have I Been Pwned ...

T-SQL and Query Languages

SQL String Functions - TRIM, LTRIM, RTRIM, REPLACE, STUFF, CHARINDEX and TRANSLATE

From MSSQL Tips

In this article, we look at how to manipulate stri...

Two-Dimensional Interval Packing Challenge

I’ve dealt with many interval packing tasks in the past and used different techniques to handle those. But they all had something in common that kept the complexity level at bay—they were all what you can think of as one-dimensional interval packing tasks. During a T-SQL class, while discussing packing challenges, Paul Wilcox from Johns Hopkins inquired whether I dealt with two-dimensional packing tasks, and if I had any references to resources for addressing those. In this article I present Paul’s two-dimensional packing challenge and my solution.

Tech News

The 2024 Technology Spending Rebound

From IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Infrastructure software providers are poised to le...

 
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