Pitfalls to avoid while feeding events into CrowdStrike
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The Wild Developers of SQL Server like Wildcards
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AI in SQL Server 2025: Embeddings
One of the cornerstones of AI is a concept called embeddings. Virtually every AI model, whether for text, video, or audio, uses something related to embeddings. Starting with SQL Server 2025, this is a term you’ll be hearing a lot, as its potential for applications is enormous!
Widespread New Technology Adoption
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Using SQL Server Stored Procedures with the Django ORM
Learn how you can call stored procedures in the Django ORM, which lets you encapsulate more complex queries inside the database.
Data Streaming Databricks in Azure
The core functionality of Apache Spark has support for structured streaming using either a batch or a continuous method. The two most popular sources of input data are data lake files and Kafka events. Check point files in the data lake are used to keep track of what data has been processed to date.
The State of the Database Landscape in 2025: Insights and trends
How are you navigating the database landscape? Our latest report sheds light on the current state of database management and offers valuable insights into how organizations can navigate and simplify the growing complexities of the database landscape.
How I Achieved Scalability in a. Amazon RDS Shared DB Connection Environment
This article shows a solution to the challenge of multiple databases on one RDS instance with different databases and the limitation of 5000 connections.
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Question of the Day
Column Adds and Drops
I run this batch on SQL Server 2022. What happens?
ALTER TABLE dbo.Accounts ADD AccountAccessType INT GO ALTER TABLE dbo.Accounts DROP AccountAccessType GOSee possible answers