I recently had a restore job where I needed to split the work up into multiple parallel processes (which I’ll refer to here as “threads”). I wanted to balance the work so that the duration was something significantly less than the sum of the restore times
This article shows how to import and export a list of registered servers from SSMS.
Today, Kendra Little talks about code reviews and why they should be done early.
Learn how to use different Spark SQL string functions to manipulate string data with explanations and code examples.
Since the title might be considered a bit vague, I don’t want you to wade through the article to figure it out. I will spare you the typical clickbait introduction, with me telling you what a foreign key constraint is, and why it and all the other constraint types provided by relational engines are useful. […]
Today, Grant talks about reasons that companies don't upgrade.
In this article, I will discuss the history and thinking behind several types of logic that are typically associated with writing relational database code.
The PIVOT operator was added to the Transact-SQL language in SQL Server 2005. It allows you to turn your row data on its side, so it can be presented as column data. This is useful when you want take unique column values and have them displayed as column headings, where the column headings are associated with summarized values displayed below each column heading. In this article I will be exploring how to use the PIVOT operator.
Today, Grant Fritchey compares a disaster caused by a toilet to technical debt in IT.
Sometimes when you do GROUP BY, the order of the columns does matter. For example, these two SELECT queries produce different results:
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