An Introduction to GitHub for DBAs
Distributed source control is really intimidating: branches, pull requests, merges – will somebody just take my code, for crying out loud? Why does it have to be so complicated and involved?
Treat All Sensitive Data as Important
No matter what the reason you have sensitive information, you need to treat it carefully.
The BI Journey: The Analyst
Most organizations today understand the value of analysing their data. In some cases, they haven’t realized the value or are just getting started. This article, by Data Platform MVP Gogula Aryalingam, describes how analytics can start small – with just one Power BI dashboard – and grow from there.
Stairway to MDX - Level 14: Basic Set Functions: The Head() Function
SSAS Maestro, SQL Server MVP and Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson introduces the MDX Head() function, which allows us to return, in order, a specified number of elements within a set.
Azure Data Lake Analytics using U-SQL Queries
This article will help with gaining confidence and familiarity with Microsoft Azure's Data Lake Analytics offering to process large datasets quickly while demonstrating the potential and capabilities of U-SQL to aggregate and process big data files.
How Perfect Should Our Software Be?
Steve talks about the level of engineering effort we need in software development.
Learning about DML Triggers
Triggers can be confusing and complex for many developers new to SQL. Steve Jones gives a few ideas for learning more about this construct as well as practicing writing them.
GDPR - A guide for the perplexed
If a picture paints a thousand words then can GDPR regulation be represented in diagram form? Could doing so make it easier to comply with the regulation by making it easier to understand?
Blogs
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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