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
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
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming When an update doesn’t update Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: I changed data from my application, but when I checked the database,... 27 November 2023 5 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric Source control is fundamental when dealing with projects and sharing code between multiple developers. Power BI present some challenges related... 22 November 2023 24 min read
BI Fabriano Richard in BI What is Microsoft Fabric all about? In this article, we will introduce Microsoft Fabric and how it relates to Power BI Premium Capacity we will turn... 22 November 2023 11 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Strategies for queries against bit columns Recently someone posted a question where they couldn’t quite figure out how to construct a predicate based on a bit... 20 November 2023 7 min read
Database Administration Aaron Bertrand in Database Administration Moving SQL Server To The Cloud: Modernizing Stack Overflow for Teams Earlier this year, we migrated the entire Stack Overflow for Teams platform to Azure. This was a lengthy endeavour and... 06 November 2023 11 min read
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
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
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
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
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
Blogs Ben Johnston in Blogs SQL Server Row Level Security Deep Dive. Part 1 – Introduction and Use Cases My initial goal of documenting and exploring SQL Server Row Level Security (RLS) was to show the basic functionality and... 01 August 2023 17 min read
Database Administration Edward Pollack in Database Administration Running Queries Across Many SQL Server Databases A challenge that reappears periodically in the world of databases (especially database management) is the need to run code on... 31 July 2023 14 min read
T-SQL Programming Greg Larsen in T-SQL Programming Using a Subquery in a SELECT statement Did you know you can include a SELECT statement within another SELECT statement? When a SELECT statement is embedded within... 26 June 2023 15 min read
