Real-time data ingestion has become essential for modern analytics and operational intelligence. Organizations across industries need to process data streams from IoT sensors, financial transactions, and application events with minimal latency. Snowflake offers two robust approaches to meet these real-time data needs: Snowpipe for near-real-time file-based streaming and Direct Streaming via Snowpark API for true real-time data integration.
Tony describes in more detail the SIMPLE recovery model, and the way it works, its advantages and disadvantages.
Validate all of your settings and be prepared to make some changes during your migration process. Most of the incompatible options make sense when you think about the purpose of SQL MI – it is controlled by Microsoft. Hardware settings, local file access, high-availability settings, and auditing are configured differently or completely disabled.
Learn a few ways to improve performance in your Azure SQL Databases through better indexing, partitioning, and columnstore index consideration.
Steve talks about the process of decision making with idea for shortening the time taken.
The new JSON field type and new functions in Azure SQL brings a new world of possibilities for JSON manipulation in SQL Databases. These features are slated to be a part of SQL Server 2025 as well. Let’s analyze some practical uses of these features
In this first level of the Stairway to Synapse Analytics, we learn how to set up a new workspace and add data files.
In this second level of the Stairway to Synapse, we learn how to create external tables and query data that is stored in our data storage using the serverless pool.
Introduction In Level 1 of this series, I discussed Synapse Analytics basics and the steps for creation of the Synapse Workspace. In Level 2, data analysis was done on Data Lake files using Serverless SQL Pool. In Level 3, I will analyze data from the files uploaded in Data Lake container using a Spark Pool. I will […]
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I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code.
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() GO ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate GOWhat happens when I run these two batches? See possible answers