Data Types in PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant
PostgreSQL has an unusually large number of data types. Grant Fritchey reviews each data type and discusses the good and bad points of each.
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Summit 2022 Call for Speakers Closes Soon
Time is running out to submit your abstract for our hybrid PASS Data Community Summit 2022 conference! If you're an expert in a data-related topic that you think would be perfect for the Summit 2022 program, we want to hear from you. Whether you're planning to attend in-person or online, all session submissions and speakers will be considered for this year's event. Don't miss your chance to speak at the leading conference for data platform pros, submit your proposal before March 31.
2022-03-30
Cloud Computing Basics - Achieving High Availability
Learn about high availability in the cloud at a conceptual level.
2022-03-28
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Cloud Computing Basics - Achieving High Availability
Learn about high availability in the cloud at a conceptual level.
2022-03-28
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Choosing Snowflake vs SQL Server for a Data Warehouse
In this article we take a high level view of choosing to use Snowflake in the cloud versus SQL Server on-premises and some things to consider.
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DevOps 101: Getting buy-in across your organization
Implementing DevOps isn’t just a matter of being great at writing code. The key to successful DevOps implementation is gaining buy in across your organization. Join Grant Fritchey live for his tips on how to achieve this.
2022-03-28
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The problem with averages
Everyone learns to calculate an average in school, but, as Joe Celko shows, there are better ways to summarize data.
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Why you don’t just buy tools to make DevOps happen
Matt Gordan is next in the hot seat. We discuss how Matt keeps the lights on while overseeing many data related projects and how his team know the more they are plugged into projects, the better support the can offer.
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Data and database management in everchanging technology landscape
This article discusses how the cloud and other technologies help companies to manage their data appropriately in the modern world.
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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