Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to hear a keynote by Vik Fearing at Swiss PGDay 2023. He talked about Property Graphs and the Graph Query Language (not to be confused with GraphQL), a recent addition to the SQL:2023 standard. The discussion was mostly theoretical in nature because only Oracle has a current implementation […]
This article will show how to use the Azure Cloud Shell and PowerShell to set up a new Azure SQL Database.
SQL Server provides lots of information about various aspects of server and database objects and this data is referred to as metadata. Understanding what is available and how to use this metadata can greatly enhance and streamline how you can work with SQL Server.
This article demonstrates how to use PowerShell to fetch your login credentials from Windows Credential Manager and pipe them securely to Flyway without ever saving them in any form, such as in a file or environment variable.
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Your first speakers in the lineup for PASS Data Community Summit 2023 have been announced! Check out the full details for this year's Pre-Cons and Learning Pathways, and find out why some of our speakers are particularly excited for what’s in store this year.
The concept behind frameworks and libraries is to provide reusable code that you can use to perform everyday tasks so that developers don’t have to write all of the code from scratch for every project. However, there are some differences that you need to understand as you start writing code, which I will cover in this article.
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We have a guest editorial today from Mala Mahadevan on the changing data community.
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If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers