Have you ever had to demonstrate a database-driven application, and longed to have the real data to do so? To do what, precisely? Well, so you can then scroll through the customers who have used the system, demonstrate the accounting and audit, browse through the products, maybe even demo the customer tracking system with comments, complaints and so on. All this is possible, using realistic, fake data.
DML, or Data Manipulation Language, statements are used to manipulate the data present in a database. The most important DML statements are INSERT, UPDATE & DELETE. This tutorial covers the various PostgreSQL DML statements and how we can use them with SQL shell as well as pgAdmin. Assuming you are familiar with table creation in PostgreSQL, […]
Steve has a thought on the best way to protect sensitive data.
This article covers the relational database system evolution and covers terms used in relational models such as relation, tuple, attribute, domain, schemas, and key.
A recent hack through a network monitoring system is scary, but Steve thinks that we ought to not require these systems to have privileged access.
Learn how PowerShell can be used to manage files and folders in your Data Lake.
Comparing current performance to baselines helps DBAs know when there’s a problem. In this article, Pamela Mooney describes how to measure the physical resources drive space, latency, memory, and CPU.
Phil Factor explores a lesser-known capability of SQL Compare, which is to help you maintain a 'traditional', well-documented, single file build script, for creating the current version of the database during development.
Learn how to generate some convincing data for your development databases.
The story of an engineer solving a problem is a good one that shows technical skills and a passion for the work.
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Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
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If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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