The Useful Cloud Tags
Tagging is important to keep track of resources in the cloud. Today Steve asks how you approach this topic.
Working with T-SQL function AVG ()
Learn about the T-SQL function, AVG(), and see how it is used in a few different cases.
Implementing ETL Logging on Lakehouse using Delta Lake's Time Travel capability
In this article I demonstrate how to use Delta Lake's time travel functionality for ETL logging along with steps to take to implement.
The VALUES clause or building tables out of nothing
The VALUES clause makes inserting literal values into a table simple and easy. In this article, Joe Celko explains how to use the VALUES clause.
Returning To An Employer
Leaving an employer on good terms is important, and Steve thinks employers ought to consider hiring former employees, even if they were let go in a layoff.
Stairway to Columnstore Indexes Level 2: Columnstore Storage
To fully appreciate just how different columnstore indexes are, and why work so well in reporting and online analytical processing (OLAP) workloads, but not for online transaction processing (OLTP), we must first look at the traditional “rowstore” indexes.
How to tell what SQL Server versions you are running
Check out this tip to easily find out what version of SQL Server you are running.
SQL Monitor: On-demand demo [Watch now]
Haven't seen SQL Monitor in a while? If you'd like to see how it enables you to always have the answers to the health of your estate, and proactively find potential problems before they impact your users, here's a 30 minute demo for you to watch whenever it suits you.
Blogs
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
Forums
PostgreSQL String Functions Part 1
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Working Better Under Pressure
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Identities and Sequences V
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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