Louis Davidson in Books Introduction to PostgreSQL for the Data Professional Learning something new has elements of bliss and terror. We all know the bliss of learning something new. The first... 13 May 2025 2 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs Managed Instance Gotchas – Configuration Items In my last post I described issues that might stop your migration to a SQL Server Managed Instance (SQL MI).... 13 May 2025 10 min read
Rodrigo Ribeiro Gomes in Database Administration Recovering data in SQL Server without full backup In more than 10 years of experience, I have dealt with cases where someone has performed incorrect operations on a... 13 May 2025 32 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials What’s Your Price? Everyone has a price, and that price takes many forms. It could be money, loved ones, comfort, duty, or a... 12 May 2025 7 min read
Farooq Aziz in Snowflake Parent – Child Task Automation in Snowflake via Task Graph In the fast-paced world of business, fast, effective data management is crucial. One of the places where this is the... 09 May 2025 12 min read
Anil Kumar Moka in Snowflake Real-time Data Streaming in Snowflake Real-time data ingestion has become essential for modern analytics and operational intelligence. Organizations across industries need to process data streams... 08 May 2025 24 min read
Dennes Torres in T-SQL Programming Techniques to query Azure SQL’s new JSON Datatype The new JSON field type and new functions in Azure SQL brings a new world of possibilities for JSON manipulation... 07 May 2025 15 min read
Louis Davidson in Conferences Jacksonville SQL Saturday 2025 Roundup Are SQL Saturdays finally back to the way they should be? This past weekend in Jacksonville Florida things sure felt... 06 May 2025 5 min read
Lukas Vileikis in MySQL MySQL Index Overviews: Hash Indexes Welcome back to the MySQL indexing series! We’ve already covered the nuances surrounding indexes in MySQL as well as walked... 06 May 2025 14 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials Data-Based Movie Reviews: Moneyball A while back, a friend of mine, who is big into baseball, tried to encourage me to watch the movie:... 05 May 2025 8 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Query Lineage in Fabric Lakehouses I already wrote about query performance analysis in lakehouses, but one secret was left behind: The capability to track the... 02 May 2025 7 min read
Matt Gantz in T-SQL Programming Purging Data from a Large Table in SQL Server Purging data from a table is a common database maintenance task to prevent it from growing too large or to... 01 May 2025 8 min read
Robert Sheldon in MongoDB Working with the MongoDB Database Tools The MongoDB Database Tools are a set of command-line utilities for working with MongoDB instances and their data. You can... 29 April 2025 16 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials The power of connecting in person To start off I want to be clear, I am a big proponent of telecommuting. Big. It has been at... 28 April 2025 6 min read
Louis Davidson in Conferences PGDay Chicago 2025 Roundup Just got back home last night about 2 AM, and I am sitting in a park thinking about the last... 28 April 2025 4 min read
Goodness Woke in Web Frappe vs. Laravel: REST API Integration Techniques REST APIs are fundamental in enabling communication between applications. Frappe and Laravel offer large frameworks to build and consume REST... 24 April 2025 17 min read
Koen Verbeeck in General Analytics How to Load a Date Dimension in Microsoft Fabric using Macros in dbt? With the popular data transformation tool dbt (data build tool), we have a bunch of interesting features at our disposal... 23 April 2025 7 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure Function & API Rate Limits: How NAT Gateway Helps You Stay Under the Radar Rate limit is common when consuming API’s: They control how many calls you can make in an interval of time.... 23 April 2025 4 min read
Bravin Wasike in DevOps Securing the DevOps Pipeline Part 2: Hardening Kubernetes and Cloud Security Strengthening Deployments and Runtime Protection In Part 1 of this series, we explored the foundational aspects of securing a DevOps... 22 April 2025 16 min read
Simple Talk Editor in Conferences Sponsoring PGDay Chicago this week On Friday, April 25, Simple Talk is excited to be a sponsor of PGDay Chicago 2025. This will be the... 22 April 2025 1 min read