How Much Can You Learn?
This Friday Steve Jones wonders about the upper limits for what you may learn in a year.
Picking the ON or WHERE Clause for the SQL Predicate
Helping people solve T-SQL problems is one of my favorite hobbies. Someone messaged me the other day with a complex query that was almost complete except for one issue. He needed to perform a LEFT OUTER JOIN but had to filter based on a value from the right table. However, when he added the filter, SQL removed rows from the left table. The task was to decide where to place the SQL predicate: in the ON or WHERE clause.
Data Sovereignty in the Cloud
Steve has a few thoughts on the lack of data sovereignty in the cloud, with an outlook that isn't very positive.
What is Delayed Durability in SQL Server — And Should You Turn It On?
Learn about delayed durability in SQL Server and how it might help you with a heavily loaded server.
DevOps vs. SRE: Bridging the Gap, Not Building Walls
In Part 2, we shift focus from theory to practice. We will explore how organizations can harmoniously integrate both practi: the agility of DevOps and the resilience of SRE. During integration, it requires deliberate changes to culture, tooling, metrics, and collaboration patterns.
Inside the Walls of Azure SQL MI
Here's a teaser about Azure SQL Managed Instance, which isn't quite PaaS or IaaS, but isn't as locked down as you might think. This is the introduction to a three part series to follow.
Stairway to Transaction Log Management in SQL Server Level, 8: Optimizing Log Throughput
This level takes a deeper look at how log fragmentation can affect the performance of operations that need to read the log, such as log backups, or the crash recovery process.
PostgreSQL High Availability Options
We are deploying a new application that uses PostgreSQL database. My manager has asked me to design high availability into the implementation. As a SQL Server database administrator, I’ve been managing PostgreSQL databases for a while. However, I’m not sure which high availability options to implement. What are the different high availability options for PostgreSQL?
Blogs
From Data Custodian to Innovation Catalyst: The Evolving Role of the CDO
By Chris Yates
There was a time when the Chief Data Officer lived in the shadows of...
Down the Rabbit Hole: Dealing with Ad-Hoc Data Requests
By Rayis Imayev
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help...
Adding a Local Model to Ollama through the GUI
By Steve Jones
I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places...
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T-SQL Fundamentals
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