When starting with AWS RDS Aurora for managing relational databases in the cloud, many data engineers face the challenge of leveraging its cutting-edge features while maintaining performance and reliability....
2026-05-22 (first published: 2026-05-04)
180 reads
This is Week 1 of PowerShell Strikes Back – a four-week May series for SQL Server DBAs who have dabbled in PowerShell but never stopped to nail down the...
2026-05-20 (first published: 2026-05-04)
495 reads
This happened to me recently after being busy with non-data modeling tasks for a few weeks. I went to add a relationship and was confused about the behavior. Read...
2026-05-18 (first published: 2026-05-04)
202 reads
Every major model out there can summarise documents, write code and answer multi step questions – then if you decide to go with a specific vendor based on costs...
2026-05-18 (first published: 2026-05-04)
959 reads
For about the last … hmmm…maybe decade or more, when you downloaded a release update from MOS for your database, the patch would consist of a single folder which...
2026-05-04
34 reads
My most recent bout with imposter syndrome was with ISACA’s Digital Trust Ecosystem Framework (DTEF) foundation exam. I’m blogging about it because I know a lot of people struggle...
2026-05-08 (first published: 2026-05-01)
349 reads
“On the way to a grand goal, celebrate the smallest victories as if each one were the final goal. That way, no matter where it ends, you are victorious.”...
2026-05-15 (first published: 2026-05-01)
153 reads
Hopefully you have just seen that APEX patchset bundle 16 has just been released for 24.2. Of particular note is that a well-publicised Chrome change to deprecate the unload...
2026-05-01
44 reads
Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion architecture declaratively, but once you have a pipeline of MLVs in production, you need visibility...
2026-05-13 (first published: 2026-04-30)
166 reads
PASS Summit East is in one week. I was on the road last week in the UK and then Houston for the Houston AI-lytics event. I had been a...
2026-04-30
29 reads
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization vs....
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Hyperscale Replicas I
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The End of Summer
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
See possible answers