A Programmer's Attitude
The way we approach development can have a big impact on quality, as well as how smoothly our team works together.
Deleting Documents from a MongoDB Collection
So far in this series, we’ve looked at different ways that you can add, retrieve, and update documents in a MongoDB collection. This article continues that discussion by explaining how to use MongoDB Shell to delete documents from a collection.
Cloud vs On-premises
Is the cloud better or worse for a workload? One company, BlueSky, has moved on-premises despite their rapidly growing workload.
Configure Microsoft Fabric Database Mirroring for Snowflake
In this tip, we explore how to configure mirroring for a Snowflake database to be available in Microsoft Fabric.
Four steps towards tackling the complexity of managing multiple database platforms
79% of us are now using two of more database platforms - fantastic for leveraging a range of benefits, but not so great when it comes to levels of complexity. Looking for ways to overcome this? Here are four steps to take towards multi-database simplicity.
Exploring Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for Butterfly Image Generation
Exploring Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for Butterfly Image Generation to gain some understanding of how this class of Artificial Intelligence technologies work.
Least Privilege
Steve wonders how well most organizations and their staff adhere to the principle of least privilege.
Prompt+ EAP: your AI-powered database development partner in the making
Last year, we introduced AI capabilities to SQL Prompt via the Prompt+ Early Access Program (EAP). Using generative AI-powered insights and context-based awareness, Prompt+ takes natural language queries and turns them into SQL coding suggestions. Check out this blog to learn more about Prompt+ and how to join the EAP waitlist.
XML Performance Tuning and Added Options
SQL Server provides a variety of ways to tune XML so that it provides consistent performance, consumes less space, all while ensuring efficient access to critical data. At its core, the metadata-styled XML format runs counter to the data that SQL Server is optimized to manage.
Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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