Are IT Certifications Still Relevant?
Steve talks about certifications today, after watching a video that showcases the benefits of why they are good for your career.
2024-05-08
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Editorials
The DBAccountant
Are DBAs going to be responsible for financial accounting for cloud resources as a part of their job? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2024-05-06
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Take Care
The world seems to be proceeding through some stuff at the moment. IT and our industry as a whole, equally seems to be going through some stuff. As such, allow this oldster to offer some advice: Take care of yourself. I know, I'm the same, you may have responsibilities for others. You need to take […]
2024-05-04
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The On-Call Load
Today Steve asks about on-call responsibility for you and how you view this as part of your job, or in your job search.
2024-05-03
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Action Over Knowledge
A big part of success is making an effort. Steve discusses the need to do things and not passively let life pass you by.
2024-05-01
110 reads
Why Early Code Review is Important for Database Deployments
Today, Kendra Little talks about code reviews and why they should be done early.
2024-04-29 (first published: 2020-02-07)
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One more reason to use foreign key constraints
Since the title might be considered a bit vague, I don’t want you to wade through the article to figure it out. I will spare you the typical clickbait introduction, with me telling you what a foreign key constraint is, and why it and all the other constraint types provided by relational engines are useful. […]
2024-04-27
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Good Luck is Needed with Old Versions
Today, Grant talks about reasons that companies don't upgrade.
2024-04-26 (first published: 2020-02-11)
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Toilets and Your Systems
Today, Grant Fritchey compares a disaster caused by a toilet to technical debt in IT.
2024-04-24 (first published: 2020-02-24)
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Seagull Management
Management is important to ensuring the success of a team. Steve talks about an anti-pattern that is often used by poor managers.
2024-04-22
166 reads
Blogs
Redgate Summit Comes to the Windy City
By Steve Jones
I love Chicago. I went to visit three times in 2023: a Redgate event,...
Non-Functional Requirements
By Brian Kelley
I have found that non-functional requirements (NFRs) can be hard to define for a...
Degrees and Trade Schools
By Kevin3NF
Can we normalize a couple of things? 1 – Trade Schools. Back in the...
Forums
Remove comma inside Comma Delimited File csv in SSIS Using Script task
Hi, I have two tables: one for headers with 9 fields and another for...
Inserting 100K rows Performance - Baseline Performance
We're trying to understand how quick new versions of SQL server can be. Obviously...
plugging a repo version number into the tabular model
hi we run 2019 std. we saw this week that someone hid 3 important...
Question of the Day
The "ORDER BY" clause behavior
Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers