In part 2 of this series, I showed an example implementation of distributing a long-running workload in parallel, in order to finish faster. In reality, though, this involves more than just restoring databases. And I have significant skew to deal with: one database that is many times larger than all the rest and has a higher growth rate.
2024-06-07
Over the years Power BI has evolved into a complex and varied ecosystem of tools and solutions, which in its turn demands several supporting roles: there are, of course, developers, data engineers and data scientists, but there is need for one more, i.e. a capacity administrator.
2024-06-05
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A new cohort of WITspiration is strating, the women in technology mentoring circle.
2024-06-05
Your challenge for this week was to find out who keeps mangling the contents of the AboutMe column in the Stack Overflow database.
2024-06-03
Learn about the SQL Server BULK INSERT command and how to use it to import text data in a SQL Server database table.
2024-05-31
The short story: SQL Server 2019 appears poised to swallow the SQL Server market altogether, hahaha.
2024-05-29
Learn about creating stored procedures in the SQL Server tempdb database and why you might want to create temporary stored procedures.
2024-05-27
Over the past years, “traditional” ETL development has morphed into data engineering, which has a more disciplined software engineering approach. One of the benefits of having a more code-based approach in data pipelines is that it has become easier to build metadata driven pipelines.
2024-05-24
We experienced several unplanned outages and failovers on our SQL Server Always On Availability Groups. We want to know the root cause to prevent them from happening in the future. How do we identify the root causes of unplanned Availability Group outages and failovers?
2024-05-22
The first two articles in this series demonstrated how PostgreSQL is a capable tool for ELT – taking raw input and transforming it into usable data for querying and analyzing. We used sample data from the Advent of Code 2023 to demonstrate some of the ELT techniques in PostgreSQL.
2024-05-20
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