Data Documents and Common Sense
What can be so difficult in creating a sensible standard for Structured Data Documents? To understand why they tend to get improved into unusable complexity, I’ll need to explain a bit of background.
2025-01-06
What can be so difficult in creating a sensible standard for Structured Data Documents? To understand why they tend to get improved into unusable complexity, I’ll need to explain a bit of background.
2025-01-06
An example of poor update performance under RCSI as compared with locking read committed. Details of an improvement in SQL Server 2022 that can help avoid the worst effects.
2025-01-03
A while back, in a Simple-Talk editorial meeting, someone bet Phil Factor that he couldn't come up with a Halloween story. To our surprise he said he could, as long as he didn't have to keep to the strict literal truth. In the end, he came up with a story about a story, and it is true that he first told the story in a data Centre at Halloween!
2025-01-01 (first published: 2014-10-31)
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This tip's objective is to present and describe several T-SQL examples for creating, using, and analyzing GUIDs and assessing their uniqueness.
2024-12-30
A 16-year old SQL Server bug that means 'forced plans' have the query plan hash in place of the expected query hash. Includes an explanation and discussion of the term 'morally equivalent plan'.
2024-12-27
For my new mission, I set out to convert a list of files from Excel to comma-separated values (CSV). We upload the original Excel files to a Data Lake in Fabric. We then need to convert a specific worksheet and move the CSV files to a different folder in Data Lake.
2024-12-25
Over the past years, the tool dbt – short for data build tool – has become quite popular in the data engineering world for handling such an ELT process. dbt takes on the role of the “T”, meaning it’s responsible for transforming the data in a certain data store.
2024-12-23
How we handle data warehousing updates to dimension tables is crucial and this article covers Slowly Changing Dimensions versus overwriting tables.
2024-12-20
Find your personal ROI in under 1 minute. And see how many working days you and your team could save in coding time with SQL Prompt!
2024-12-20
PASS Data Community Summit will return to Seattle next year! Save the date for this incredible in-person event for global data professionals, which will take place at Summit, Seattle Convention Center, from November 17-21, 2025!
2024-12-18
By Steve Jones
I started a short thread on Twitter/X and Bluesky recently after leaving the Tesla...
By Steve Jones
Life gets better as you replace transactions with relationships. – from Excellent Advice for...
I’ve been putting together a new PostgreSQL session called “Performance Monitoring for the Absolute...
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Hello, I ran below statements in MS SQL, and got error, but fine in...
I have a complex database with a few filegroups and files. Can I run a backup command like this? (assume file/filegroup names are valid).
BACKUP DATABASE [complex] FILE = N'thirdone' , FILE = N'thirdtwo' , FILEGROUP = N'second' TO DISK = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQL2022\MSSQL\Backup\complex.bak' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'complex-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10 GOSee possible answers