The fourth annual State of Database DevOps report is now available for download. Kendra Little announces the launch in her latest blog. Check out the first high level findings of the report here.
When the database design is not great, you may have to write some creative queries to get what you need.
Floating point datatypes accommodate very big numbers but sacrifice precision. They are handy for some types of scientific calculations, but are dangerous when used more widely, because they can introduce big rounding errors.
Dr. Dallas Snider, a MSSQLTips author, mentioned that SQL Server RAND() function could generate random values uniformly distributed from 0 through 1, exclusive. He generated random numbers from the normal distribution with a specific mean and standard deviation.
I started in the early days of SQL Server, when having a gigabyte of disk storage was unheard of, much less a gigabyte of RAM. My watch has more storage space than the mainframe we replaced with an early version of SQL Server years ago. The technical possibilities and amounts of data we are capable […]
Alex Chamchourine explains how he managed to find a row in a billion row table without an index.
You need to make sure that nobody tampers with your production databases, or really any databases outside Development. Even if you weren't of a nervous disposition, you'd want to know if a database was stopped or removed. You'd also be intrigued by the sudden unrehearsed addition of a database to a production server.
As DBAs, we all know how important it is to check all of the SQL Server databases under our care for potential corruption issues. However, to accomplish that, we might not have the time to do any of the following:
Problem The usage of a collection of integers in some scenarios is considered to be optimal because of the overhead involved by the creation of another user table used just to store numbers, which is the most common solution. What are collections of integers? They are lists or arrays consisting of integers. The number of […]
By Brian Kelley
My most recent bout with imposter syndrome was with ISACA’s Digital Trust Ecosystem Framework...
By Steve Jones
“On the way to a grand goal, celebrate the smallest victories as if each...
Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
Whatsapp 083831618865 Jl. Asemka No.27-30, Pinangsia, Kec. Taman Sari, Kota Jakarta Barat, Daerah Khusus...
Jl. Cideng Timur No.11 F, Petojo Utara, Kecamatan Gambir, Kota Jakarta Pusat, Daerah Khusus...
WhatsApp:083831618816 Jl. HOS. Cokroaminoto No.148, Pasir Kaliki, Kec. Cicendo, Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat 40173
In honor of May the fourth and Star Wars (may the force be with you), finish this quote:
"Do, or do not. ..."See possible answers