Developers, in general, are very optimistic about the code they write. This is likely one cause of their estimates of the time required being low, as well as the various bugs that slip through because of corner cases that appear for the problem being solved. Often developers think they've considered the various ways this code […]
Learn how you can set up and use Ledger tables in an Azure SQL Database to verify the integrity of your database changes.
In this tip, we cover how to use the GENERATE_SERIES function to expand a range of dates into rows
Use SELECT statements to query a MySQL database. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains how.
Many people have used a "Numbers" or "Tally" table without really knowing what it does. This is an introduction as to how a Tally table replaces a loop.
A generic way of exporting, deleting and loading data, for database development work. It uses Flyway Teams, a PowerShell framework, JSON files for storage and a table manifest to define the correct order of dependency for each task. It should help a team maintain datasets between database versions, as well as to switch between the datasets required to support different types of testing.
Learn about various SQL Server system functions to return meta data from SQL Server such as SERVERPROPERTY, DATABASEPROPERTYEX, DB_NAME, DB_ID, FILE_NAME, FILE_ID, FILE_IDEX, SCHEMA_NAME, SCHEMA_ID, OBJECT_NAME, OBJECT_ID and STATS_DATE.
New licensing rules are coming for using your SQL Server licenses in the cloud.
Phil Factor looks at some technologists more famous for thwarting progress than for their own creations.
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Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
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Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
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