Aaron Bertrand in SQL Server Days of the Week, Bitwise Edition I recently had to help support synchronization and distribution of workloads between multiple servers. Some of this work involves Task... 02 August 2024 7 min read
Koen Verbeeck in BI How to Stream Data from Azure Event Hubs into a Fabric Eventhouse At Microsoft Build 2024, Real-Time Intelligence was announced with the Real-Time hub as its centralized location for all data-in-motion. This... 26 July 2024 9 min read
Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Index cleanup : Harder than it looks I’m not the first person to write about cleaning up unused or redundant indexes. You can read many articles about... 22 July 2024 7 min read
Boris Novikov in PostgreSQL Making Temporal Databases Work. Part 2: Computing Aggregates Across Temporal Versions The temporal database is a database that can keep information on time when the facts represented in the database were,... 16 July 2024 20 min read
Robert Sheldon in MongoDB Working with Documents in the MongoDB Compass GUI Throughout this series, I’ve discussed various ways to work with the documents in a MongoDB collection. If you’ve been following... 10 July 2024 23 min read
Aaron Bertrand in Database Administration It’s a recovery strategy, not a backup strategy I’ve talked about it before; you shouldn’t have a backup strategy, you should have a recovery strategy. I can’t possibly... 08 July 2024 12 min read
Fabriano Richard in BI Microsoft Fabric, the Land of Wizards and Trolls In my previous article (What is Microsoft Fabric All About) I explained what Microsoft Fabric is, how it came about... 03 July 2024 9 min read
Boris Novikov in PostgreSQL Saving Data Historically with Temporal Tables: Part 1: Queries In this article we discuss how to store data temporally in PostgreSQL. Temporal database store data in a way that... 28 June 2024 16 min read
Robert Sheldon in MongoDB 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... 24 June 2024 15 min read
Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming 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... 21 June 2024 12 min read
Koen Verbeeck in BI Choosing Between the Lakehouse and Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric Microsoft Fabric is a new centralized, AI-powered cloud data platform hosted by Microsoft. It combines several services of the existing... 10 June 2024 20 min read
Phil Factor in Theory and design Concepts and Issues in Test Data Generation Data generation is the science and art of providing data for database development work that is as realistic and controllable... 10 June 2024 11 min read
T-SQL Programming Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Effective Strategies for Storing and Parsing XML in SQL Server XML is a common storage format for data, metadata, parameters, or other semi-structured data. Because of this, it often finds... 03 June 2024 21 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Snake draft sorting in SQL Server, part 4 Part of a series: [ Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 ] In the previous... 27 May 2024 9 min read
Theory and design Joe Celko in Theory and design The CHECK() Constraint One of the many ways a relational table differs from the file structures used by pre-relational storage systems is that... 20 May 2024 11 min read
MySQL Adrien Payong in MySQL Exploring MVCC and InnoDB’s Multi-Versioning Technique In the realm of relational databases, MySQL stands out as one of the most popular choices. Maximizing its performance is... 20 May 2024 33 min read
Lukas Vileikis in MySQL Optimizing MySQL: Deleting Data In the previous parts of these MySQL optimization series, we told you how query optimization works on a high level,... 17 May 2024 14 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Snake draft sorting in SQL Server, part 3 Part of a series: [ Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 ] In part 2... 15 May 2024 5 min read
BI Fabriano Richard in BI PowerBI premium capacity administration: dataset monitoring and tuning Over the years Power BI has evolved into a complex and varied ecosystem of tools and solutions, which in its... 13 May 2024 12 min read
Koen Verbeeck in BI How to Build Metadata Driven Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric Over the past years, “traditional” ETL development has morphed into data engineering, which has a more disciplined software engineering approach.... 06 May 2024 11 min read
