Action Over Knowledge
A big part of success is making an effort. Steve discusses the need to do things and not passively let life pass you by.
A big part of success is making an effort. Steve discusses the need to do things and not passively let life pass you by.
This article explains metadata driven pipelines and shows an example in Microsoft Fabric.
I recently had a restore job where I needed to split the work up into multiple parallel processes (which I’ll refer to here as “threads”). I wanted to balance the work so that the duration was something significantly less than the sum of the restore times
This article shows how to import and export a list of registered servers from SSMS.
Today, Kendra Little talks about code reviews and why they should be done early.
Learn how to use different Spark SQL string functions to manipulate string data with explanations and code examples.
Since the title might be considered a bit vague, I don’t want you to wade through the article to figure it out. I will spare you the typical clickbait introduction, with me telling you what a foreign key constraint is, and why it and all the other constraint types provided by relational engines are useful. […]
Today, Grant talks about reasons that companies don't upgrade.
You have dropped a column and wondering why you haven't recovered any space? Let's take a look.
In this article, I will discuss the history and thinking behind several types of logic that are typically associated with writing relational database code.
Data isn't just about numbers and spreadsheets. It holds stories, patterns, and the answers...
By Brian Kelley
When I look at a system and think about its security model, the first...
On Wednesday May 15th 2024 I will give a free webinar on MSSQLTips.com about...
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Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers