How to choose between SQL and NoSQL databases
Organizations have many choices when it comes to databases. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains how to choose between SQL and NoSQL databases.
Measuring Team Performance: Calculate LeadTime metric using JIRA and GitHub data
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A Step by Step Guide to the Availability Group (AG) Listener
Availability databases hosted on SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AG) can be connected using a unique Virtual Network Name (VNN), called the Availability Group Listener. When an Availability Group is enabled, clients can connect to databases in both primary and secondary replicas without explicitly specifying the SQL Server instance name. You don’t even need […]
Step by Step Guide to Install Jupyter Notebook
Whether you work as a Data Engineer or a Data Scientist, a Jupyter Notebook is a helpful tool. One of the projects I was working required a comparison of two parquet files. This is mainly a schema comparison, not a data comparison. Though the two .parquet were created from two different sources, the outcome should […]
How to Manage Date Formats in the Power BI Service
Learn how to properly configure input date formats for Power BI reports for any type of browser so users always get the results they expect.
Win DevOps books with Redgate’s competition
Redgate is giving you the chance to win your choice of DevOps books and Redgate goodies in their latest competition. To enter, visit the Redgate Forums and answer the question: ‘How is SQL Change Automation helping you?’
What counts for a DBA: Foresight
Of all the valuable attributes of a DBA, from passion to humility to practicality, perhaps one of the most important attributes may turn out to be the most seemingly nebulous: foresight. According to Free Dictionary, foresight is the "perception of the significance and nature of events before they have occurred". Foresight does not come naturally to most people, as the […]
SQL Server Integrates Hadoop and Spark out-of-the box: The Why?
Why has Microsoft added new capabilities in SQL Server to connect to other types of data sources? Read on to learn more.
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The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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