PowerShell Day by Day: Filtering Objects

In my last article, The Basics of PowerShell Day By Day, I covered some basics of getting started. These articles aren't intended to replace some of the getting started information in things like the Stairway to PowerShell. Instead, I am covering some of the tips, tricks, techniques, and bits of knowledge that I wish I'd […]

Pulling Together

A number of companies worked together to ensure that they could meet the challenge of the NHS. Sharing data was critical to this effort.

How We Ended up with Git

Git is used by many teams for version control. In this article, Dino Esposito takes a look back at the history of source control and how git became the popular tool it is today.

AI Data

Data is important for AI projects, but the ethics and privacy implications are complex. A new project from Microsoft aims to help users control their data and make it available for use.

Creating and Using Inline Table-Valued Functions

Inline Table Valued Functions (iTVFs) are one type of user defined function that is available to implement in SQL Server since SQL Server 2000.

iTVFs remain a very useful tool in our SQL armoury, so let's quickly revisit them and the different ways we can use them in our code.

The Basics - Level 1 of the Stairway to Query Store

Introduction Instead of going straight into the topic of the Query Store, I would like to start this Stairway Series by mentioning a few performance tuning scenarios that are very common to production DBAs. I think most of us have been in one of these situations at some time: An application experiencing slowness after a […]

Improve Power BI Performance with Horizontal Filtering

In this third part of this Power BI optimization series we look at how horizontal filtering and other changes can improve overall performance

DevOps and Exhibits

DevOps continues to improve the way we build software and Steve has a good example in today's editorial.

Experimenting with PostgreSQL in a Container

Learn how to get started using a container to run PostgreSQL, or really any other RDBMS, including a gotcha to watch out for.

SQL Server High CPU Query Use Monitoring with PowerShell

In this part of the PowerShell monitoring tips we look at how to capture the top queries that are consuming the most CPU from all monitored instances.