Practical IOT
The use of IoT and lots of data is allowing governments to better serve their citizens.
Losing Skills Because of Automation
When I was younger, it seemed that everyone I worked with in technology knew how to build a computer. Most knew how to work with a BIOS, were comfortable with command lines, and could assemble complex compiler directives into a Make file. Over time, it seems many people, especially Windows and MacOS users, became focused […]
The Art of Data Ingestion - Part 1
Data movement is a fundamental piece of a data engineer’s duties, and recently I’ve been thinking about the art of data movement. What are some of the most important pieces that a data engineer needs to think about when confronted with data ingestion? There is of course data exporting as well, and in that case, […]
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Refresh a Power BI Dataset using Microsoft Power Automate
Learn how to refresh a Power BI dataset by integrating Power Automate into the report.
Psychological Safety
Building psychological safety inside of a company is hard, but it is important to build trust and develop a team.
Women as Tech Leads – Tackling the Challenges at the Data Community Summit
The WIT panel at this year's PASS Data Community Summit includes a number of women who will answer questions on growing your career and rising up the org chart within your organization.
Backing up MySQL Part 1: mysqldump
mysqldump is one of the most popular database backup tools in the MySQL world. The tool is prevalent partly because it’s very basic and quite powerful – mysqldump database backup tool is command line-based, very simple and very straightforward to use. As far as MySQL or its flavors (MariaDB and Percona Server) are concerned, this command line-based tool is one of the top choices for junior and senior database engineers across the world alike.
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DevOps is Culture
A big part of adopting DevOps and becoming better at building software is establishing culture.
Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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