This week there was a headline that said "Open Source Software Powers 96% of Modern Applications, New Study Finds" and if you stopped reading there, you might think, hey, it's not in the apps I work on. Or you might think that because you use OSS software, most of the world also does. Microsoft, Oracle, […]
What is a distributed monolith vs. a microservice architecture? Steve has a few thoughts today.
Learn how to use Fivetran HVR software to ETL data into your One Lake Storage from a PostgreSQL database.
Learn how to create a moving average in SQL Server using older and less performant T-SQL and a modern way using windowing functions.
Building software can be hard and lots of people have tried various methodologies to improve the way their teams work. Steve notes a lot of the process is the same, but he has a preference.
In this first level of the SSAS Tabular stairway, learn how to implement and format a date dimension.
Like ancient Gaul, SQL is divided into three sub- languages. The DDL (Data Declaration Language) declares the data. This is where we find the data types, constraints, references and other structures that have to do with how the data stored . The DML (Data Manipulation Language) uses those declarations to change their contents or to invoke them. It does not change structures and schema objects.
As a Data Engineer I found myself having to learn rather more about cloud infrastructure than I had expected.
I've been very pleased with the direction of SSMS the last few years. As it's been separated from SQL Server releases and gets updated more often, I think the changes from v17 though v20 have been improvements. There are still issues, but it's been better. Now we finally have SSMS moving to a modern shell […]
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