Prevent SQL Injection
SQL Injection continues to be a problem and Steve has a few thoughts today on how to reduce your vulnerabilities.
Introducing PASS Summit Charitable Organization Scholarship
To help mark Redgate’s 25th Birthday, the company has launched a new initiative to foster knowledge and skills in the data industry.
SSIS in One Hour: Hands-On Tutorial
The goal of this tutorial is to enable ETL developers to obtain practical knowledge to exploit SSIS in transforming and combining data through hands-on exploration to be ready for real-world challenges in managing information.
A Checklist for Learning
A checklist can be helpful, but it needs to be more than a list of things if it's going to drive your career.
Hiring in IT and Relevance of Domain Experience
When choosing to hire someone, do you want experience or freshness? A few thoughts from someone that had to go through this recently.
Introducing the pre-con schedule for PASS Summit 2024
The speakers and sessions have just been announced for PASS 2024! We’re delighted to share the pre-con schedule for Monday, November 4, and Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Check out the full pre-con line up and the incredible speakers taking part and secure your spot today.
Microsoft Fabric: Moving Dataflows Gen 2 to different workspaces
Let’s see the steps needed to move a dataflow from one workspace to another. For a matter of example, let’s consider the dataflow access a lakehouse on the Dev environment. When copied to the Test environment, the new copy needs to be linked to a new dataflow in the Test environment.
Getting and keeping fit
Don't worry, this is a technical editorial, but the initial analogy starts a bit personal. For the past decade, I've been on a journey to get fit, facing setbacks along the way, such as surgery complications and broken bones, torn cartilage, and, most recently, broken metal implants. Throughout this time, my overall physical fitness has […]
Creating a Comma-Separated List (SQL Spackle)
Learn how to create a comma separated list of values in this short SQL Spackle article by Wayne Sheffield.
Blogs
A New Word: Anderance
By Steve Jones
anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
Troubleshooting SQL Server – Starting with the Error Log
By gbargsley
We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?”...
From OLTP to Analytics: Bridging the Gap with Modern SQL Architectures
By Chris Yates
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
Forums
Work out closing balance using opening balance of prior month
Hello, I think I need a recursive cte query but unsure of the logic....
The Security of Old Tech
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Question of the Day
Tables with a SPARSE Column and Consumption
True or False: Tables with a SPARSE column consume more space than regular columns if most values are NOT NULL.
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