PostgreSQL Ryan Booz in PostgreSQL Transforming and Analyzing Data in PostgreSQL In our data hungry world, knowing how to effectively load and transform data from various sources is a highly valued... 12 March 2024 20 min read
Database Administration Aaron Bertrand in Database Administration Get the most out of SQL Server Agent logs If you haven’t migrated your workloads to a managed database platform yet, you’re probably still relying on SQL Server Agent... 11 March 2024 6 min read
Robert Sheldon in MongoDB Building MongoDB Aggregations In the previous article in this series, I discussed how to use a find statement to retrieve data from a... 01 March 2024 20 min read
T-SQL Programming Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Find and Replace Text in Strings in T-SQL String manipulation is an inevitable task for developers and data professionals alike. Despite all the best efforts to normalize databases,... 29 February 2024 17 min read
Database Administration Aaron Bertrand in Database Administration Upgrade SQL Server on your workstation Lately, I’ve seen many people struggling to upgrade their workstation to the latest version of SQL Server. The main source... 26 February 2024 6 min read
PostgreSQL Grant Fritchey in PostgreSQL Functions and Procedures: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant One of the most useful constructs in SQL Server is the stored procedure. It gives you a way to do... 15 February 2024 9 min read
Database Administration Aaron Bertrand in Database Administration Leave it better than you found it This is for the folks who still have to log into remote machines and do work manually on the box.... 12 February 2024 8 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Microsoft Fabric Nikola Ilic, best known as Data Mozart, published a great article and video about how to make semantic model data... 25 January 2024 9 min read
Louis Davidson in Career State of the Database Landscape Results 2024 Every year, Redgate surveys technologists to ask a big question (through lots of little questions, naturally.) This year’s question was... 23 January 2024 3 min read
Robert Sheldon in MongoDB Querying MongoDB Documents MongoDB provides an efficient environment for storing document data at scale. However, most of your interactions with MongoDB will not... 22 January 2024 25 min read
Database Administration Edward Pollack in Database Administration The Importance of Retention It is always an afterthought. New objects are created that start off small and current. New feature development takes over... 19 January 2024 24 min read
Database Administration Aaron Bertrand in Database Administration Optimized locking in Azure SQL Database I don’t think I’ve ever had a great impression of Azure SQL Database as a place for production applications. In... 08 January 2024 8 min read
T-SQL Programming Itzik Ben-Gan in T-SQL Programming Two-Dimensional Interval Packing Challenge Packing intervals is a classic SQL task that involves packing groups of intersecting intervals to their respective continuous intervals. In... 02 January 2024 17 min read
PostgreSQL Boris Novikov in PostgreSQL Eager Aggregation in SQL queries Aggregation is a widely used way to summarize the content of a database. It is usually expressed with GROUP BY... 27 December 2023 15 min read
Robert Sheldon in NoSQL Introducing the MongoDB Document MongoDB is a document database. As such, the data is stored as individual documents. A document is a data structure... 26 December 2023 18 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Counting more efficiently Nearly a decade ago, I wrote a post called “Bad habits : Counting rows the hard way.” In that post,... 20 December 2023 7 min read
Theory and design Phil Factor in Theory and design Using a SQL Tokenizer Imagine this: you have several directories full of SQL script files, and you need to know where a certain table... 18 December 2023 9 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI Using Spark Jobs for Multiple Lakehouse Maintenance in Microsoft Fabric I have published videos and articles before about Lakehouse maintenance. In this article I want to address a missing point... 17 December 2023 12 min read
MySQL Mercy Bassey in MySQL MySQL Error Log Management in DevOps Operations When it comes to the development and operations (DevOps), one thing stands out as a critical aspect and that is... 14 December 2023 14 min read
PostgreSQL Henrietta Dombrovskaya in PostgreSQL Exploring PostgreSQL Indexes In this blog, we continue our exploration on PostgreSQL indexes which we started here. In that article, we learned what... 11 December 2023 12 min read
