Importing a CSV into SQL Server Shouldn't Be This Hard
A frustrating time importing CSV files leads Steve to test the different options.
2021-07-14
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Articles
Autoscaling in Microsoft Azure
The ability to scale up and down without maintaining extra hardware is one of the best cloud computing features. In this article, Mahendran Purushothaman explains autoscaling in Microsoft Azure.
2021-07-14
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
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, […]
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
SQL Server Restore Database Options and Examples
In this article we look at different SQL Server backup types and schedules and the steps to take to properly restore a database.
2021-07-12
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 […]
2021-07-09
10,671 reads
SQL Server and hyperconvergence
To be efficient and save money, many organizations are looking at hyperconverged infrastructures for SQL Server. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains what to consider for SQL Server and hyperconvergence.
2021-07-09
The key to great database CI is disposable databases
Redgate engineer Matthew Flatt talks about the challenges of database Continuous Integration and what you need to do to become great.
2021-07-09
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 […]
2021-07-07
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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