Introduction You often need to check the performance of a PostgreSQL query you just wrote to look for some way to improve performance. In order to do this, you need a report of the query execution, which is called the execution plan). The query execution plan gives you the entire summary of the query execution […]
2021-03-18
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This article is an interesting approach to solving a data transformation problem in SQL and Scala. Shel Burkow uses a SQL execution plan for software design.
2021-03-18
In this article we look at how to securely store data in text files that could be used for SQL Server authentication or wherever you need to keep data secure.
2021-03-17
Thanks to the consent of the speakers, the expert-led educational training courses covering the following four topics: Data Modernization, Azure Migration, Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, are now available to all. You can watch the sessions and learn from a range of experts online, for free.
2021-03-17 (first published: 2021-03-01)
In this article, we examine the support for non-SQL languages in Azure Data Studio, primarily PoSh and Python.
2021-03-16
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Learn about the differences and similarities when deleting data from SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL with the several examples in this article.
2021-03-16
Every time you need to reuse the query results from SSMS, for example to populate another table, or to search for matching rows in another table, it will inevitably mean a lot of manual tweaking to the get the results into the right format. Louis Davidson uncovers three SQL Prompt gems that can remove all this pain.
2021-03-16
Introduction I recently passed the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification exam, Professional Data Engineer Certification. It took me about five month to prepare for this, and I would like to share my thoughts of why I decided to take it on and how I prepared for it. At the moment, Google cloud (GCP) is […]
2021-03-15
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Understanding SQL Server security is a critical skill. Greg Larsen explains SQL Server authentication methods, logins, and database users in this article.
2021-03-15
The goal of this article is to illuminate exactly what Azure Databricks is so that you can determine what parts of the platform might make sense to add to your organization's data stack.
2021-03-15
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
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