By now, pretty much everyone has heard the stories about the first computers. They were huge, cost a fortune, required incredible amounts of air conditioning, and perhaps more importantly, ran batch jobs submitted on punched cards and magnetic tape. But even before we had these dinosaurs, there were E.A.M (electric accounting machine) units.
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Let’s say we have a couple of update statements we need to run every 15 minutes in the Stack Overflow database, and we’ve built indexes to support them:
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Read a summary of the data platform announcements from Microsoft at the PASS Data Community Summit 2024 last week.
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Learn how to use Pandas an open-source library for analyzing and manipulating tabular data in Python along with several examples.
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In part three of this series, Boris Novikov looks at how data is saved and modified in a temporal database and what kind of integrity constraints are needed for temporal tables. If you haven’t seen parts one and two, don’t worry! Links are provided in the article, and we recommend checking them out first.
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In this article on Fabric we will examine how to get data from a REST API.
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Learn how to join tables together when using the GraphQL API with Microsoft Fabric in this step-by-step article.
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Learn about the ways in which you might better manage indexes for a better performing and efficient database.
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Let’s start with the Stack Overflow database (any size will work), drop all the indexes on the Users table, and run a delete:
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When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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