Introducing Minion CheckDB by MinionWare
Minion CheckDB completes the MinionWare maintenance and backups suite in style. Each solution is plug-and-play for the busy DBA, and deeply configurable for those shops with in-depth needs.
The Future is Now - An Internet of Things Infographic
A look at the positive and negative aspects of IoT in this infographic.
Planning for Successful Data Management
It is the data, in particular, that sets Database Lifecycle Management apart from the mainstream of application delivery. Data entities, and the way that organisations understand and deal with them, have their own lifespan. If we neglect the management of data, we risk disaster for the organisations that use it. If we take data management seriously, databases become a lot easier.
A Wide Variation in Skill
We all have different levels of skills, and it's not always because we don't try. Sometimes it's a question of timing.
Loading Non Duplicated Data Using SSIS
Learn how you can easily load data from a file that isn't duplicated, discarding those rows that are.
SQL Server v.Next : STRING_AGG Performance, Part 2
Aaron Bertrand starts digging deeper into the performance of string concatenation methods STRING_AGG and FOR XML PATH.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse with PowerShell
We will teach how to create a new SQL Azure Data Warehouse using Powershell
DevOps and Database Lifecycle Management
Database Lifecycle Management (DLM) aims to provide a roadmap of what is required, and when, to deliver and maintain effective databases that can respond quickly to business change. How...
The Elusive Conditional WHERE Clause
What's this, a conditional WHERE clause that doesn't use dynamic SQL?
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
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PostgreSQL String Functions Part 1
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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