Audit systems: a good idea or a mess to maintain?
Audit systems can be a good idea, but they can also be a mess to maintain.
Using tsqlt Tests to Practice Queries
In this short article, see how a unit test can be easily written in tsqlt, and how this can help us refactor or build better code.
Getting Started with Flyway and any RDBMS
How to get started with Flyway, as simply as possible, using PowerShell. This article provides a practice set of Flyway migration scripts that will build the original pubs database on either SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB or SQLite and then migrate it from version to version, making a series of improvements to its schema design.
Search all String Columns in all SQL Server Tables or Views
In this article we look at T-SQL script you can use to search for a string in every table and view in every database or in a specific database.
Loading Data using R and PowerBI
I'm not a fan of R visuals in PowerBI. I recently learned I can use R to load data and native PowerBI visuals to display the data. Here's how.
Memory profiling in Python with tracemalloc
You can find memory leaks in Python code with tracemalloc. In this article, Priyanka Nawalramka demonstrates how to use tracemalloc to find the leaks.
Simple Reporting with Flyway and Database Models
If you can generate a file-based (JSON) model for each new version of a database, produced by a Flyway migration, then you have an easy way to run simple reports to help you search, list, and understand the structure of these databases. I'll show how to produce the models using PowerShell and then run some queries against them to generate the reports.
It's Not Yours
We may talk about our databases, but hopefully most of us know we don't own the data.
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Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks Quickly
In the Database Engine, when a deadlock is detected, what does the detection interval shrink to (in time)?
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