BI Dennes Torres in BI SQL Endpoints and Lakehouse UI Differences and Access Secrets There are some differences and secrets between the UI of a SQL Endpoint and the UI of a Lakehouse. I... 30 October 2023 7 min read
T-SQL Programming Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Exporting and Importing Data into SQL Server Using Files There are plenty of applications and tools available that allow for the movement of data in and out of SQL... 23 October 2023 23 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Don’t use DISTINCT as a “join-fixer” I’ve quietly resolved performance issues by re-writing slow queries to avoid DISTINCT. Often, the DISTINCT is there only to serve... 16 October 2023 6 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs SQL Server Security Primer SQL Server security structure, mechanisms and methods are very thoroughly documented in the Microsoft documentation, but it is quite daunting... 15 October 2023 37 min read
MySQL Aisha Bukar in MySQL A Beginners Guide To MySQL Replication Part 6: Security Considerations in MySQL Replication Protecting and controlling access to your data against unauthorized person(s) is crucial in any organization. Unauthorized entry or modification of... 12 October 2023 10 min read
Featured Henrietta Dombrovskaya in Featured PostgreSQL Indexes: What They Are and How They Help In the previous blog in this series, we learned how to produce, read and interpret execution plans. We learned that... 09 October 2023 13 min read
Theory and design Joe Celko in Theory and design First Normal Form Gets No Respect Dr. Codd first described the relational model in a paper in Communications of the ACM (CACM 13 No 6; June... 05 October 2023 13 min read
Performance Aaron Bertrand in Performance Normalize strings to optimize space and searches While this article is specifically geared to SQL Server, the concepts apply to any relational database platform. The Stack Exchange... 02 October 2023 9 min read
T-SQL Programming Itzik Ben-Gan in T-SQL Programming T-SQL Fundamentals: Controlling Duplicates When people start learning a new field, for example T-SQL, it’s tempting to spend very little time trying to understand... 28 September 2023 20 min read
MySQL Robert Sheldon in MySQL MySQL joins Tables in a MySQL database are commonly related to one another, often in multiple ways, and it is only by... 25 September 2023 27 min read
Database Administration Adrien Muhlemann in Database Administration Analyze and Tune SQL Server Statistics Over the years, SQL Server Statistics have been discussed in countless blog posts, articles, and presentations, and I believe that... 22 September 2023 34 min read
T-SQL Programming Drupal Grupal in T-SQL Programming Alternatives To SQL Server 2022 Built-in function GREATEST If you haven’t already heard, SQL Server 2022 introduced a new built-in system function called GREATEST. Simply put, it is... 18 September 2023 14 min read
MySQL Robert Sheldon in MySQL Working with MySQL constraints MySQL provides a set of constraints that you can include in your table definitions to help ensure the integrity of... 07 September 2023 30 min read
MySQL Muhammed Ali in MySQL Orchestrating a MySQL Container on Kubernetes If you’ve been using MySQL for a while and want to learn how to orchestrate MySQL containers, you’ve come to... 05 September 2023 9 min read
MySQL Aisha Bukar in MySQL A Beginners Guide to MySQL Replication Part 5: Group Replication MySQL Group replication is a remarkable feature introduced in MySQL 5.7 as a plugin. This technology allows you to create... 28 August 2023 7 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Yet Another Reason to Not Use sp_ in SQL Server Object Names In 2012, Aaron Bertrand said most everything I knew (and a bit more) about the issues with using the sp_... 25 August 2023 6 min read
PostgreSQL Grant Fritchey in PostgreSQL Introducing VACUUM: Learning PostgreSQL With Grant While there are many features within PostgreSQL that are really similar to those within SQL Server, there are some that... 21 August 2023 11 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Working around schema drift in SQL Server At Stack Overflow, our environment has multiple implementations of a largely – but not 100% – identical schema. (By “schema,”... 14 August 2023 10 min read
PostgreSQL Mohan Saraswatipura in PostgreSQL Database Concurrency in PostgreSQL Concurrency control is an essential aspect of database systems that deals with multiple concurrent transactions. PostgreSQL employs various techniques to... 11 August 2023 19 min read
Blogs Aisha Bukar in Blogs A Beginners Guide to MySQL Replication Part 4: Using GTID-based Replication Welcome back to another replication series! As a quick reminder, we explored various methods of using MySQL’s replication capabilities in... 08 August 2023 11 min read
