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.
Last week the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit conference was held in Seattle. 1,700 of my closest friends got together for a week of learning (well, technically it's a three day conference, but there are two days of pre-conference seminars) and sharing. I'm still exhausted a week later (although, old age and an aggressive travel […]
Today Steve wonders if official solutions from a vendor are that important.
Triggers in T-SQL have many uses. There are right and wrong ways to write triggers. To learn the difference, read on...
In part three of this series, Boris Novikov looks at how data is saved and modified in a temporal database and what kind of integrity constraints are needed for temporal tables. If you haven’t seen parts one and two, don’t worry! Links are provided in the article, and we recommend checking them out first.
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