Migrating to the cloud has many advantages… until you’re the one tasked with making it happen. There are a lot of considerations, and the key is to break it down into four steps, not one. Find out how you can manage the challenge of migrating to the cloud.
2023-08-14
A fun contest from Steve asks you to design a system that tracks travels for a fictitious business.
2023-08-11
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One of the premises of a modern warehouse is to be able to interconnect cloud services and process and analyze data from any provider with ease. Two of the top cloud services right now are Azure Synapse and Snowflake. Whatever your organization is implementing or if you need to transfer data from/to those services, it is important to know how to interconnect them and be able to transfer data between services.
2023-08-11
Extensions are a unique and powerful capability in PostgreSQL, a feature that other relational databases do not provide. Taking advantage of the extension framework in PostgreSQL is a true advantage to using the platform.
In this webinar, find out how PostgreSQL extensions can help you find solutions to some of your common problems.
Register now and to join on August 22nd
2023-08-11
This article discusses different approaches of Upserts (update+inserts) in Amazon Redshift
2023-08-09
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Preparations for Summit 2023 are fully underway! We thought what better way to introduce you to some of this year’s sponsors than sit down with them and find out what they have in store for you in November…
2023-08-09
One of the more challenging technical details of columnstore indexes that regularly gets attention is the need for data to be ordered to allow for segment elimination. In a non-clustered columnstore index, data order is automatically applied based on the order of the underlying rowstore data. In a clustered columnstore index, though, data order is not enforced by any SQL Server process. This leaves managing data order to us, which may or may not be an easy task.
2023-08-09
Secure your Sponsorship package before the rates go up. PASS Data Community Summit 2023 is where the database community meets every year to make life-long connections with peers, network with industry leaders, and advance their careers. With over 170 technical sessions, and a great line-up of sponsors, this is your time to secure your space before August 30 and get a preferred booth location.
2023-08-09
The most common method on the internet for combining DATE and TIME columns in SQL Server is incorrect. This article demonstrates why that and other methods are incorrect and two lesser known high performance methods that produce correct results even for the "edge cases".
2023-08-07
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Are you looking to modernize and migrate your data but have questions about the complex organizational challenges? We recently hosted the webinar: Overcoming Organizational Challenges in Data Modernization and Cloud Migration: A Guide for Senior IT Leaders. This blog post summarizes the conversation into 7 key points.
2023-08-07
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers