Learning the SQL GROUP BY Clause
Learn about the various ways to use the GROUP BY command to summarize and rollup query results. We look at the basics with examples as well as using group by rollup, cube and grouping sets.
2021-10-06
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Tower Loan: Monitoring our estate and insights for your success
Join Kevin Davis, DBA Manager at Tower Loan to hear their playbook for successful distributed estate monitoring, and the role of SQL Monitor.
2021-10-06
Building blocks of Extended Events data collection
Extended Events have been part of SQL Server since 2008. In this article, Ed Pollack explains the building blocks of Extended Events data collection.
2021-10-04
SQL Server Diagnostic Memory Queries
Microsoft Data Platform MVP Glenn Berry demonstrates a set of eleven SQL Server Diagnostic Memory Queries that help you understand your memory usage in SQL Server.
2021-10-04
Advanced Schema Evolution using Databricks Auto Loader
This article demonstrates how to get started with using Auto Loader cloudFiles with Databricks through an end-to-end practical example of ingesting a data stream which has an evolving schema.
2021-10-01
Hype Cycle for Agile & DevOps
Get Gartner’s latest DevOps and Agile recommendations for I&O leaders.Redgate is named as a sample vendor for Continuous Compliance Automation in the 2021 Hype Cycle™ for Agile and DevOps
2021-10-01
Gartner® Hype CycleTM 2021
Get Gartner’s latest DevOps and Agile recommendations for I&O leaders. Redgate is named as a sample vendor for Continuous Compliance Automation in the 2021 Hype Cycle™ for Agile and DevOps.
2021-09-29
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Plotting in Python for Financial Time Series Data for Exponential Moving Averages
Learn how to plot a financial time series using SQL Server data and Python to reveal the value of exponential moving averages and make decisions about time series values.
2021-09-29
SQL Server VM Best Practices
In this article we look at some of the things you should be aware of when building a VM to run SQL Server, such as vCPUs, disks, memory and more.
2021-09-27
Why pay for open-source software?
The very definition of open-source software means that developers can change the code, which means that exclusive, paid, licensing is not a part of the deal. In short, open-source is free. Free of licensing anyway. So, why might you choose to pay for an open-source software like Flyway? Grant Fritchey explores.
2021-09-27
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