Managing the challenge of migrating to the cloud

Migrating to the cloud has many advantages… until you’re the one tasked with making it happen. There are a lot of considerations, and the key is to break it down into four steps, not one. Find out how you can manage the challenge of migrating to the cloud.

What Counts For a DBA: Manners

When most people were young, they had someone telling them to "Mind your manners." Such classics as: "Keep your elbows off of the table," "Use a fork," "Put on deodorant," as well as "Don't chew with your mouth open" were bandied about like there were laws of nature. However, manners differ significantly from laws in […]

How Would You Design This: Tracking Travels

A fun contest from Steve asks you to design a system that tracks travels for a fictitious business.

What Have You Done Lately Outside of Work?

Today Steve asks the question about what you do outside of work to advance your career.

Data Transfer from Azure Blob Storage to Snowflake Using Pipelines

One of the premises of a modern warehouse is to be able to interconnect cloud services and process and analyze data from any provider with ease. Two of the top cloud services right now are Azure Synapse and Snowflake. Whatever your organization is implementing or if you need to transfer data from/to those services, it is important to know how to interconnect them and be able to transfer data between services.

PostgreSQL 101: The ten PostgreSQL extensions you need to know about

Extensions are a unique and powerful capability in PostgreSQL, a feature that other relational databases do not provide. Taking advantage of the extension framework in PostgreSQL is a true advantage to using the platform.

In this webinar, find out how PostgreSQL extensions can help you find solutions to some of your common problems.

Register now and to join on August 22nd

How Wrong is Stack Overflow?

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.

Upserts in Amazon Redshift

This article discusses different approaches of Upserts (update+inserts) in Amazon Redshift

Meet the Summit 2023 Sponsors

Preparations for Summit 2023 are fully underway! We thought what better way to introduce you to some of this year’s sponsors than sit down with them and find out what they have in store for you in November…

Ordered Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2022

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.