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Steve has a few thoughts on a rant about Stack Overflow. An experienced developer thinks much of their information is wrong and things are getting worse.
This article discusses different approaches of Upserts (update+inserts) in Amazon Redshift
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One of the more challenging technical details of columnstore indexes that regularly gets attention is the need for data to be ordered to allow for segment elimination. In a non-clustered columnstore index, data order is automatically applied based on the order of the underlying rowstore data. In a clustered columnstore index, though, data order is not enforced by any SQL Server process. This leaves managing data order to us, which may or may not be an easy task.
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Microsoft Fabric changes the paradigm for how you might store data in your warehouse.
The most common method on the internet for combining DATE and TIME columns in SQL Server is incorrect. This article demonstrates why that and other methods are incorrect and two lesser known high performance methods that produce correct results even for the "edge cases".
Are you looking to modernize and migrate your data but have questions about the complex organizational challenges? We recently hosted the webinar: Overcoming Organizational Challenges in Data Modernization and Cloud Migration: A Guide for Senior IT Leaders. This blog post summarizes the conversation into 7 key points.
This article employs Power Query features to combine queries and implement requirements in different listed scenarios.
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A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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