I really enjoy playing with radios [ed: we know, you won't shut up about it]. Something as simple as checking in to a local net (basically saying hi to a bunch of people on the radio) is fun. However, there's so much more to it. In the last few weeks I've been testing a new […]
A cloud version of Aurora MySQL has added support for the buffer pool to survive restarts of the database engine. Steve thinks that's an interesting technology, which could be helpful.
Learn how you can handle dimensional modeling in a data warehouse when your data uses different categorization for ages.
Nearly a decade ago, I wrote a post called “Bad habits : Counting rows the hard way.” In that post, I talked about how we can use SQL Server’s metadata to instantly retrieve the row count for a table.
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Learn about the benefits of mixed extent allocation in SQL Server 2016, along with how you can check this setting or enable it in your database.
An update from 37 Signals/Basecamp shows their expatriation from the cloud has been a success. Worth reading before you make too many moves to the cloud.
But nowadays, most services are in the cloud. They're not on your servers; they're somewhere else. With most software-as-a-service (SAAS) offerings, you don't have many options to configure connectivity. What if you need data from one SaaS service into another?
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a cross platform query tool for SQL Server. Learn how to get started using ADS to work with your SQL Server instances.
In this article, we will examine how to use Azure Data Studio with a git repository for storing code.
I previously wrote about how the underlying technology for Fabric mirroring changed with SQL...
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At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert...
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los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
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If I want to track historical data values, which mechanism should I use?
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