Introduction ChatGPT includes custom GPTs. You can create your own custom GPT. In this article, we will demonstrate how to create a custom GPT expert in SQL Server. Requirements To create your own GPT, you need to use the paid version of ChatGPT. First, go to ChatGPT. Secondly, if you don’t have the paid version, […]
2025-09-02 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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Most DBAs are familiar with full and differential ...
2025-09-02 (first published: 2025-08-01)
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Large Language Models (LLMs) like Anthropic’s Cl...
2025-09-02 (first published: 2025-08-01)
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Overview MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database used for building modern, scalable applications. In this article, we’ll cover how to set up MongoDB on Windows and connect to it using Node.js. We will also perform some basic Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations to ensure we understand fully on how Node.js can be made […]
2025-09-02 (first published: 2025-08-08)
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Is your SQL Server truly secure? Here are the top cyber threats targeting it. Learn how you can stop them before it strikes.
2025-09-02 (first published: 2025-08-07)
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Learn how to connect to a PostgreSQL database from Python with this popular library.
2025-09-02 (first published: 2025-08-25)
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In web app development company boardrooms, architects and engineers are debating old assumptions. Scaling up isn’t just about faster servers or better caching anymore. It’s about reshaping how systems think. CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and Event Sourcing are no longer fringe ideas. They’re becoming default choices in high-concurrency systems where consistency, auditability, and performance […]
2025-09-02 (first published: 2025-08-06)
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Overview In SQL Server, indexing is a technique used to improve the performance of queries by reducing the amount of data that SQL Server needs to scan. You can think of it like a table of contents in a book—it helps SQL Server find data more quickly. In this article, we will cover the following […]
2025-09-02 (first published: 2025-08-07)
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Evolution of code The thing with any bit of code that has been around for a while, is that when change comes along, the tendency is to cater for the change by adding new stuff, while nothing gets taken away. Some stuff has definitely been taken away from this Date Dimension, but some historical artefacts […]
2025-09-02 (first published: 2025-08-05)
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Introduction Sometimes we face the scenario in an enterprise environment that the database in SQL Server Always On Availability Group (AOAG) has high concurrency read and write access from application servers. If we keep using the one network interface card for both network traffic of database connections from application servers and database mirroring between AOAG […]
2025-09-01 (first published: 2023-05-08)
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By Steve Jones
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On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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