IDC’s recent Global DataSphere Forecast, 2021-2025 predicts that global data creation and replication will experience a compound annual growth rate of 23% over the forecast period. But what’s causing the growth? Where will all of that extra data be stored? And how should we, as data professionals, prepare for it? Read this blog to explore these important questions.
2021-09-22
Microsoft provides many ways to run SQL Server in Azure, but which do you choose? In this article, Robert Sheldon explains the Azure SQL options.
2021-09-20
How to use Flyway configuration files to minimize typing during ad-hoc development from PowerShell or DOS; you just type in the Flyway commands you need and hit "go" and the config files take care of all the tiresome connection, authentication and project details.
2021-09-17
In this article we will walk through a clear end-to-end process of securely mounting an ADLS gen2 account in Databricks.
2021-09-17
Oracle has built-in functionality to analyze text. Sanil Mhatre demonstrates how to perform a sentiment analysis on data stored in a table using Oracle Text.
2021-09-15
Over 2500 global database professionals answered questions on their experiences with database monitoring in our annual survey earlier this year. We’re creating four reports from the findings and in our first, The real-world challenges of growing server estates, you’ll discover both insights and trends along with advice for how to tackle the most common challenges.
2021-09-13
The SQL Server identity column is used to populate a column with incrementing numbers on insert. In this article, Greg Larsen explains how it works.
2021-09-13
Oracle added several enhancements to the sequence object in version 12c, including an “identity” column feature. Jonathan Lewis explains how to work with these new features.
2021-09-10
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2021-09-10 (first published: 2021-09-03)
In this article we look at a PowerShell script that you can use to centrally enable and disable any SQL Server Agent Job on any instance of SQL Server.
2021-09-08
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