Building a Data Center
A data center is a complex beast. Is it worth building and maintaining your own? Steve has a few thoughts on a data center versus a cloud.
A data center is a complex beast. Is it worth building and maintaining your own? Steve has a few thoughts on a data center versus a cloud.
Learn about the differences and challenges with implicit and explicit measures in Power BI.
In this second installment of our series comparing Frappe and Laravel, we probe into critical aspects of database management and migrations.
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Learn about how you can efficiently load data in Azure Synapse.
Are you clear in your reporting. Steve notes that sometimes we might leave too much up to interpretation by the end user.
You’re running an ad-hoc query in a Microsoft SQL Server database with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and need to further analyze the result set in an Excel spreadsheet. How do you export the data?
As organizations move to the cloud, the once essential role of the Database Administrator (DBA) as the guardian of system optimization, has been overshadowed, often viewed as a bottleneck to innovation. Yet, as technology evolves, the one thing I know is history repeats itself, and optimization skills are once again emerging as a critical necessity. […]
The idea of data debt seems both silly and obvious to Steve. We all have too much data and it's out of control.
Introduction JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) has become a popular data format for storing and exchanging information. Microsoft SQL Server, starting from version 2016, introduced built-in support for JSON, allowing developers to work with JSON data more efficiently within the relational database environment. This article will explore how to store, retrieve, and manipulate JSON data in […]
The other day I came across an interesting repo on github, KubeDiagrams. What this...
By Steve Jones
I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes...
SQL Server migrations are a headache, ask anyone who’s been through the pain of...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Introduction to PostgreSQL for the...
Hi we know (or believe) ssas saas gets stood up separately when a company...
Good Afternoon. I have been manually running an SSIS package on an adhoc basis,...
I have this code:
SELECT CHOOSE (MONTH (saledate), 'Winter', 'Winter', 'Spring', 'Spring', 'Spring', 'Summer', 'Summer', 'Summer', 'Autumn', 'Autumn', 'Autumn', 'Autumn') AS x FROM ProductSales;What is a good name for the column alias? See possible answers