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
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
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
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
