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Mergers and acquisitions in Insurance

The insurance sector has seen a marked rise in mergers and acquisitions over the past 12 months, and although these can be an excellent way to leap beyond organic growth, M&As can result in challenges with technology. In this blog, COEO's James Boother provides some tips on how, with good planning, technologies can be a real advantage in your next acquisition.

2021-07-14

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An Introduction to Power BI

Introduction Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors working together. It helps to connect different data sources and get visually immersive and interactive insights from the data. Power BI creates powerful reports to be shared with others, as required. Data may be connected from different sources including files, databases, Azure services, […]

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2021-07-12

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Best of Summit 2020

The Best of Summit 2020 series is now live! This curated series features a selection of the most-viewed content from PASS Virtual Summit 2020 to help you find relevant data platform training related to this year’s conference tracks. Best of Summit 2020 includes sessions from some of the top speakers in the data industry including Erin Stellato, Andy Yun, Melissa Coates, Pinal Dave, Hamish Watson, and many others.

2021-07-12

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How to Restore a Snapshot in AWS RDS with the Same Name?

The demand for increasingly scalable, capable, and inexpensive database, backup, and recovery solutions has never been higher than it is now, as digital transformation reaches its pinnacle. Restoring is the process of recovering data from a backup and applying logged transactions to the data. Backups are used to restore data. Restoring returns the backup file […]

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2021-07-09

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More on Column Choice and Order for Multi-column Non-Clustered Indexes

In the last year I’ve published articles on indexes to include Indexes: When Column Selectivity Is Not Always A Requirement – SQLServerCentral and Query Optimizer Suggests Wrong Index and Query Plan -- Why? – SQLServerCentral. This article is a continuation of just how the optimizer interacts with the index wizard. We’ve all heard and read […]

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2021-07-07

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What is Page Density

In SQL Server, there is a concept of page density. This is determined by how much data is stored on each page. What is a page density of 90%?

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