Introduction The Azure Synapse workspace is in preview mode as of July 2020. The workspace brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics. This workspace has the best of the SQL technologies used in enterprise data warehousing, Spark technologies used in big data analytics, and pipelines to orchestrate activities and data movement. Here, I […]
Steve looks at some of the software development trends from last year, and if they apply today.
The standard data warehouse design from Kimball with facts and dimensions has been around for almost 25 years. In this article, Vince Iacoboni describes another way to design slowly changing dimensions.
In Redgate Change Control v3.0, you can now commit your database changes to your local Git repository and collaborate with your team by pushing and pulling changes from the remote Git repository. If you’re using branches, you can also create and switch Git branches from within Redgate Change Control.
One of the finest songs of the sixties had the following lines … "Sitting one day by myself, And I'm thinking, "What could be wrong?" When this funny little Hedgehog comes running up to me, And it starts up to sing me this song. Oh, you know all the words, and you sung all the […]
Use native SQL Server backups with Amazon RDS databases to easily import and export data between local server and the AWS cloud.
Today Steve asks about the people that might be critical in your organization.
This tip looks at using artificial intelligence models with SQL Server to predict outcomes.
The challenges of large scale administration can be complex, but the more we share, the more we help others learn and better manage systems.
In this article we look at different examples of creating SQL Server stored procedures.
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ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers