My last two months have been packed full of activity. I’ve had the amazing opportunity to be with PostgreSQL friends in New York, Greece, and Seattle. In between, it was a treat to be back in Pittsburgh for the first SQL Saturday since before the pandemic. The strength of the database community at each event […]
Bob Ward announces the next version of SQL Server, now in private preview.
There were a number of T-SQL functions added in SQL Server 2022. Today Steve asks if you are using any of these in your work.
BULK INSERT and BCP are powerful, high performance tools for importing text files. SQL Server MVP Jeff Moden gives us several nifty tips in this introduction to BULK INSERT and BCP Format Files including "Skipping Columns" and the sequestration of bad rows while still loading all the good data.
By now, pretty much everyone has heard the stories about the first computers. They were huge, cost a fortune, required incredible amounts of air conditioning, and perhaps more importantly, ran batch jobs submitted on punched cards and magnetic tape. But even before we had these dinosaurs, there were E.A.M (electric accounting machine) units.
There is no shortage of mundane tasks at work. Steve Jones notes that you might not want to depend on those to fill your day in the future.
Let’s say we have a couple of update statements we need to run every 15 minutes in the Stack Overflow database, and we’ve built indexes to support them:
The challenges of managing lots of system are significant and there aren't easy solutions, but Steve has a few thoughts on what you can do.
Read a summary of the data platform announcements from Microsoft at the PASS Data Community Summit 2024 last week.
Learn how to use Pandas an open-source library for analyzing and manipulating tabular data in Python along with several examples.
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Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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I run this command to start SQLCMD:
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