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
How to create a single set of SQL migration scripts for Flyway that we can use across multiple database systems, or for all regional variants of a database.
2021-09-08
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.
2021-09-06
Communities of practice bring people together to share ideas and learn from each other about a common interest. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains and gives some advice on starting them.
2021-09-06
In this article we demonstrate how to transfer data via a CSV file from a SQL Server database to a Pandas dataframe and then subset the dataframe in Python.
2021-09-03
A set of PowerShell cmdlets that will 'diff' two versions of a database and provide a high-level overview of the major database changes made by successive Flyway migrations. You can 'diff' a SQL Server database to the same one on PostgreSQL and find out which objects are the same and which are different.
2021-09-01
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited...
By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
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