Stairway to Database Containers Level 4: Using a Docker Compose File
In the next level of the Stairway to Database Containers, let's learn to use a compose file to specify a number of options for our container.
Is your DevOps strategy missing a vital link?
Database DevOps practices can help you ship features faster, but how do you safely enable this, and ensure those updates will successfully deploy? Redgate Test Data Manager was developed to resolve bottlenecks and challenges, helping organizations ship deployments they can trust by enabling developers and testers to self-serve test data that walks and talks like production with sensitive customer data taken care of. Read more on the blog.
Microsoft Fabric Warehouse Security: Object-Level, Column-Level and Row-Level
Learn about object-level, column-level, and row-level security in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse and how this can be implemented to limit access to data.
Big Northwind with AI
As part of my work with Redgate, I wanted to do some testing on our subsetting and masking tools. Subsetting needs a big data set, and while Stack Overflow is big, it's kind of simple. I wanted something a little different. Since our engineers use Northwind to do a lot of demos, I decided to […]
Less Junior Staff
One of the strange side effects of AI might be junior staff struggle to get hired and get experience. Where does that leave the industry when senior staff retires?
Days of the Week, Bitwise Edition
I recently had to help support synchronization and distribution of workloads between multiple servers.
Outside Interests
I'm a little excited because tomorrow I'm going to my first maker's faire. I'll be volunteering with our local radio club (100 year old, W5IAS, oldest radio club in Oklahoma). In addition, I'll be showing off a few controller chips & Raspberry Pis that I use with my radios for APRS, satellite tracking, and digital […]
Iteration and Conditional Activities in Azure Data Factory
Learn about the different iterator activities in Azure Data Factory.
Your Computer Science Education
Steve wants to know how and what you learned about computing, as well as what was missing.
5 Ways to Spend Your 2024 Learning and Development Budget in the US
Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at our discretion. This is something I encourage you to negotiate when you are considering a job or at your annual review. We all need to learn and a budget signifies your boss cares about you.
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
Forums
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers