An Impressive SQL Server
This Friday Steve Jones has a poll about which SQL Servers might impress you. Is there a company or installation that you think would really showcase the power and scalability of SQL Server?
SQL Server on Linux
A secret project is underway up in Redmond, according to sources not so high up in the development team. A port is partially working for various reasons. Read this exclusive scoop!
Oracle Error When Importing An Interval Partitioned Table
Oracle 12.1.0.2 can throw an ORA-01438 when importing an interval partitioned table. In this post, David Fitzjarrell suggests a work-around until Oracle patches the bug.
Correct Old Mistakes
We all make mistakes, but it's important that we revise our code to correct them over time.
Data Mining Part 34: Preparing for a certification exam
In this article we will talk about the Microsoft certifications related to Data Mining.
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and Database References
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) provides, via the DacPac, interesting support for verifying not only those references within the database, but also those to other databases even if they are on other servers. Although it is adds an extra level of complexity to deployments, it can increase the probability that deployments will succeed without errors due to broken references or binding errors. Ed Elliot investigates.
The Boardgame of Office Politics
Sometimes the stress of interdepartmental friction withing organisations, can get on top of you, especially between the business and IT when the going gets tough. Simple-Talk's answer is a board game to put it all into perspective. Instead of getting carried away, play the board game instead and reach catharsis.
Advanced Mathematical Formulas using the M Language
The Power BI desktop designer contains a rich set of advanced mathematical functions. In this article, John Miner shows how you can combine these functions together in a computed column to solve numerical business problems.
Hacking Data
A new series of attacks were proven recently using music files to attach embedded systems in cars. Could this be another attack vector that we need to worry about?
Blogs
Prime Day Recommendations
By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
Fabric for Operational Reporting & SQL Endpoint Trap
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Spending Time in the Office
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers