Oracle Performance Tuning: Practical Techniques Every DBA Should Master
Here are a few things every Oracle DBA should know about performance in their databases.
2025-10-03
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Here are a few things every Oracle DBA should know about performance in their databases.
2025-10-03
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Data is usually the most important asset in organizations, but only SQL developers can frequently access that data. Technical teams often write queries for non-technical users. This restricts agility, slows decision-making, and creates a bottleneck in data accessibility. One possible remedy is natural language processing (NLP), which enables users to ask questions in simple English and receive answers without knowing any code. Still, the majority of NLP-to-SQL solutions are cloud-based, which raises issues with cost and privacy.
2025-10-03
Learn how a setting an improve high concurrency inserts with the OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY option.
2025-10-01
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The JOIN statement is one of the most common operations SQL developers perform. Yet in a world ruled by Inner and Left Joins, the poor Full Outer Join is like Cinderella before the ball – allowed out on only the rarest of occasions. In an (unscientific) survey I once performed of SQL developers at one Fortune 100 firm, half of the developers had never used a Full Outer Join in production code, and the rest had used it in a tiny handful of occasions.
2025-10-01
Discover how SQL Server features reduce web app latency. Learn key tactics to deliver faster queries and better performance in today’s web economy.
2025-09-29
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A countdown timer can be a powerful visual tool in many Business Intelligence reporting scenarios. This could be for marketing campaigns, contract expiries, and business deals with clients. Real-time countdown visuals are not natively supported in Power BI. Although, there is the Count Down Timer custom visual, which is not dynamic in its configuration.
2025-09-29
This article shows a simple way to integrate a local GEnAI model into your T-SQL work.
2025-09-26
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The Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL) provides a simpler way of defining Power BI Semantic Models. Unlike the JSON-based Tabular Model Scripting Language (TMSL), TMDL uses a more accessible tab-based format for specifying DAX measures, relationships, and Power Query code.
2025-09-26
Learn how a trace flag affects SQL Server reading from disk and where this might be a useful thing for you to enable.
2025-09-24
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As a SQL Server DBA, the migration of SQL Server from an existing version to the latest version is a usual activity. In today’s cloud-oriented world, many organizations still prefer an on-prem environment; my organization is one of them. There are multiple reasons to keep your data on-prem, like having more privacy and control of the environment. Currently, our major project is to migrate our existing Microsoft SQL Server 2019 to SQL Server 2022. Recently, we completed the POC. Today, let’s discuss the steps of the SQL Server 2022 installation and migration of our databases.
2025-09-24
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Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, allowing you to easily...
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Just saw the "Azure Extension for SQL Server" Does anyone has experience with it?...
I've noticed several instances of what looks like a recursive insert with the format:...
I have a table with this data:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 2 2 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 3 3 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 4 4 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 5 5 2025-01-01 2025-01-06I run this code:
SELECT IDENT_CURRENT('TravelLog')I get the value 5 back. Now I do this:
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog ON INSERT dbo.TravelLog ( TravelLogID, CityID, StartDate, EndDate ) VALUES (25, 5, '2025-09-12', '2025-09-17') SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog OFFI now run this code.
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog) GO INSERT dbo.TravelLog ( CityID, StartDate, EndDate ) VALUES (4, '2025-10-14', '2025-10-17') GOWhat is the value for TravelLogID for the row I inserted for CityID 4 and dates starting on 14 Oct 2025? See possible answers