Geographic information systems (GIS) play a critical role in emergency response planning and risk assessment. One of the key challenges in this field is determining whether a specific location falls within an area of interest. This capability is especially valuable for property and casualty (P&C) insurers, who need to assess their insured property exposure when severe weather events such as tornadoes occur.
Steve has a few thoughts on natural keys, which often turn out not to be as unique as we expect.
Do you wonder why SQL Server ignores an index? Do you think about how you can deal with this problem? When you include too many columns in a query you decrease index selectivity. So, if you write a query like “Select * From …” the chance of choosing your nonclustered index will decrease.
There was a post on X I read today about valuing your time. The gist was that since this person had waited 9 minutes to save $4, they valued their time at $27 an hour. I get the point being made. Time is valuable and you need to set the value of your time. It […]
Today Steve asks which data model issues are most annoying to you.
In this article, we look at how to create a SQL backup to network share or restore a backup from a network share.
Steve re-posts a question from someone else, asking why you wouldn't want to use an AI.
This next article in the Data Engineering with Fabric series showcases how tally tables can help load data in a Fabric warehouse.
How can we get familiar with Azure Databricks with Spark Dataframes?
Learn how to emulate Azure storage for files, blogs, and queues.
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
See possible answers