Dijkstra's Algorithm

Introduction This article celebrates a classic algorithm [1] of Dijkstra (1930 – 2002) which finds a path of minimal cost between any pair of nodes in an undirected graph. His procedure is widely recognized as a fundamental tool for examining communication and transportation networks (eg. Google Maps) and is surprisingly simple. By his own admission, […]

Projects To Showcase Your Skills

A good way to showcase your skills is by working through and documenting a project and solution. Steve notes today that this is important in today's hiring market and asks for sample projects you might suggest for others.

Interesting Aurora MySQL Feature: The Buffer Pool Survives Restarts

Lemme start this off by saying this is probably irrelevant to you. (It’s irrelevant to me, too.)

New Power BI Explore this Data Feature: An Alternative to Excel Pivot Tables

Learn how to pivot and analyze data in Power BI like you can do in Excel for fast and easy data analysis.

Fixing Poor Programming Practices

Today Steve has a few stories of how he's fixed poor programming practices and asks you to share your own.

Kickstart the year with our free Livestream! Navigating the database landscape in 2024

The key finding from our annual ‘State Of’ survey is that there’s a need for skill diversification to keep up with the pace of technological advances in IT world.

How will this skills gap affect you?

Whether you’re just starting out in your career, you’re a seasoned data professional or you’re a senior IT leader wanting to stay ahead of business growth, join our free livestream on January 23rd.

Redgaters Steve Jones, Ryan Booz and Beca Parker will introduce key findings from the survey and offer their thoughts on the big changes coming in 2024 and what you can do to thrive in this changing landscape.

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Using Spark Jobs for Multiple Lakehouse Maintenance in Microsoft Fabric

I have published videos and articles before about Lakehouse maintenance. In this article I want to address a missing point for a lot of Fabric administrators: How to do maintenance on multiple lakehouses that are located in different workspaces.

Happy New Year 2024

Happy New Year from Steve, with a reminder to work on your career plan for 2024.

Minimal Downtime Storage Migration of Large Databases

This article shows how we were able to migrate a TB size database to new storage with minimal downtime.

Backup SQL Server on Linux Databases using SQL Server Agent on Windows

In this tip, we're going to look at the steps to backup SQL Server on Linux databases using SQL Server Agent on a Windows server.