Hiring and Motivating Technical Polyglots in Data Analytics
In this article, I will discuss hiring and motivating technical polyglots. A polyglot is a person who speaks multiple languages
2024-12-13
Articles
PASS Summit is going on tour in 2025!
Announced during Redgate's Keynote at PASS Summit in Seattle, PASS Summit On Tour will see smaller scale events hosted in New York, Dallas and the Netherlands in 2025. To be the first to know when tickets and dates are released, sign up to our mailing list.
2024-12-13
Virtualizing GCP data by using Fabric Shortcuts: Data Engineering with Fabric
In the next installment of this series, learn how you can read data from the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and virtualize it into your Azure Data Lake Storage.
2024-12-11
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Aggregate Functions in Power BI including Running Total, Running Average and Max
This article explains how to aggregate data for Power BI reports and provides examples of running totals, running averages, min, max, and more.
2024-12-11
The Paradox of NOLOCK: How Dirty Reads Can Sometimes Be Cleaner
Every SQL Server developer has heard it: "Don't use NOLOCK in production!" But this common rule isn't as simple as it seems. Sometimes, what seems like a bad practice can actually be the right choice. Let's explain what NOLOCK really does in simple terms. When you use NOLOCK, you're telling SQL Server "just show me […]
2024-12-09
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3 Legit Signs It’s Time for Enterprise Edition
Your app is happily humming along on SQL Server Standard Edition. Things are quiet – too quiet. You’re wondering what you’re missing, and whether you should be on SQL Server Enterprise Edition. Here are 3 warning signs to watch out for.
2024-12-09
2024-12-06
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Using Fivetran (HVR) to Replicate Data From PostgreSQL to an Azure Databricks Warehouse: Data Engineering with Azure
Learn how to use Fivetran HVR software to ETL data into your One Lake Storage from a PostgreSQL database.
2024-12-06 (first published: 2024-11-27)
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Calculate a Moving Average with T-SQL Windowing Functions
Learn how to create a moving average in SQL Server using older and less performant T-SQL and a modern way using windowing functions.
2024-12-06
Data Control Language (aka Security)
Like ancient Gaul, SQL is divided into three sub- languages. The DDL (Data Declaration Language) declares the data. This is where we find the data types, constraints, references and other structures that have to do with how the data stored . The DML (Data Manipulation Language) uses those declarations to change their contents or to invoke them. It does not change structures and schema objects.
2024-12-04
Blogs
Making a PostgreSQL Backup in a Container
By Steve Jones
I needed to back up a PostgreSQL database as a part of the repro...
Azure SQL offerings
By James Serra
There are three Azure SQL products with so many different deployment options, service tiers,...
T-SQL Tuesday #183 Roundup
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I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions....
Forums
RLS Causing RBAR
Hi all, First I want to ask just a generic question. Does RLS in...
SQL2019 STANDARD max memory is 128Gb yet my Bufferpool exceeds this value
Reading the Microsoft documentation it says SQL2019 STANDARD EDITION has a max memory of...
Having issues installing SSIS extension for VS 2022 Community
I have installed the SSIS extension for VS 2022 community. When I go into...
Question of the Day
A Simple Choice
I have this data in a table?
CatIDCatName 3MonitorsWhat is returned when I run this code?
SELECT CHOOSE(catid, 'Laptops', 'PCs') FROM dbo.Categories AS cSee possible answers