Learn about disaster recovery and high availability options in SQL Server with details on the tradeoffs you make when choosing from Availability Groups, Log Shipping, Database Mirroring, and Replication.
A guest editorial today from Kendra has a few tips for working from home.
This week’s query exercise asked you to find two kinds of locations in the Stack Overflow database.
As a member of the PostgreSQL open-source community, I have been following the recent license change by Redis Labes on March 20, 2024. Redis introduced a dual license model, specifically adding the Redis Source Available License (RSAL), which prevents other vendors from providing Redis as a service without a paid subscription from Redis Labs. The […]
Learn how it works and how to use the DENSE_RANK() function in your code.
Ever wonder all the reasons that we use databases instead of file systems? While we don’t think of it too much anymore, the first reason that databases came into existence was to remove redundancies.
Using a CURSOR is not normally the best way to process through a set of records. Yet when a seasoned programmer moves to writing TSQL for the first time they frequently look for ways to process a sets of records one row at a time. They do this because they are not used to thinking about processing records as a set. In order to process through a TSQL record set a row at a time you can use a cursor. A cursor is a record set that is defined with the DECLARE CURSOR statement. Cursors can be defined as either read-only or updatable. In this article I will introduce you to using cursors to do record level processing one row at a time.
Today Steve discusses code freezes, those times when you don't allow changes to be made by developers.
By Steve Jones
Recently I’ve been looking at archiving some data at SQL Saturday. As a start,...
Buckle up, database wranglers! Nowadays, SQL DBAs hold the keys to a company's most...
By DataOnWheels
Picture this, your data ingestion team has created a table that has the sales...
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