On Monday, November 5th, 2018, the 5th annual “Seattle Freecon” (a FreeCon in Seattle for those that might not be attending a pre-con before the PASS Summit) will be held. Put on by Jason Brimhall and Wayne Sheffield, there’s a set of 6 sessions you can attend for free that day. That’s right, absolutely FREE.
When you're not sure, start by aiming for 5 or less indexes per table, with 5 or less fields each.
Developers working with SQL Server should learn to embrace stored procedures. They really, really do work well.
HIPAA was signed into law in the United States in 1996. In this article, Robert Sheldon discusses how the act affects the day-to-day responsibilities of database administrators.
Is there a need for apprenticeships in the data world? Should we consciously seek to view our first year as an apprenticeship? Should companies provide learning paths for new hires?
Azure Data Factory is a new way of moving data around, and this first level gives you a good overview of what the service can do.
Today Kathi talks about the skills that all of us need to succeed in our careers.
On this article I will show you how to perform a basic data cleansing using the derived column data transformation
On Monday, Sep 24, 2018, at the Ignite 2018 conference, Microsoft announced the first public preview of SQL Server 2019 (community technical preview (CTP) release of SQL Server 2.0).This new release of SQL Server is packed with many new features to improve performance, integrate your increasing volumes of corporate data, beef up security, and more.
Doing the same thing for too long, and not enjoying it, isn't good for anyone. You might be burned out, or as Steve Jones notes, you might need to change our perspective.
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
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