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
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
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
This article looks at how to use SQL IS NULL and SQL IS NOT NULL operations in SQL Server along with use cases and working with NULL values.
2024-12-02
Welcome to part 2 of our Demystifying Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery series.
2024-11-29
This tip explores leveraging existing SQL Server stored procedures within the Microsoft GraphQL API.
2024-11-27
By now, pretty much everyone has heard the stories about the first computers. They were huge, cost a fortune, required incredible amounts of air conditioning, and perhaps more importantly, ran batch jobs submitted on punched cards and magnetic tape. But even before we had these dinosaurs, there were E.A.M (electric accounting machine) units.
2024-11-22
Let’s say we have a couple of update statements we need to run every 15 minutes in the Stack Overflow database, and we’ve built indexes to support them:
2024-11-20
Learn how to use Pandas an open-source library for analyzing and manipulating tabular data in Python along with several examples.
2024-11-18
In part three of this series, Boris Novikov looks at how data is saved and modified in a temporal database and what kind of integrity constraints are needed for temporal tables. If you haven’t seen parts one and two, don’t worry! Links are provided in the article, and we recommend checking them out first.
2024-11-15
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In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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