Theory and design Joe Celko in Theory and design The NTILE Function The SQL NTILE() is a window function that allows you to break a table into a specified number of approximately... 09 November 2023 8 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
PostgreSQL Ryan Booz in PostgreSQL Getting connected to PostgreSQL for the first time PostgreSQL continues to be all the rage in 2023, whether in “vanilla” form of the fully open-source distribution or a... 03 November 2023 14 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
Editorials Jason Romans in Editorials Pike’s Market to Pikes Peak: The PASS Summit is Worth the Journey Recently I spoke at SQL Saturday Denver. The day after the conference we went to visit Pikes Peak Mountain. You... 26 October 2023 9 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
Robert Sheldon in Security and Compliance Protecting your Cloud Assets Organizations of all types and sizes are turning to the cloud for their application and data storage requirements. The cloud... 18 October 2023 21 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
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
CI/CD Bravin Wasike in CI/CD How to Set up Jenkins CI/CD on Kubernetes Cluster using Helm Jenkins is an open-source multi-platform software for continuous integration/continuous delivery and deployment (CI/CD) in DevOps. It is one of the... 15 September 2023 9 min read
Editorials Louis Davidson in Editorials The Challenges of Making a Conference Schedule Over the past 10 years, I have been involved in scheduling speakers at several conferences, most notably the PASS Data... 14 September 2023 4 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
Dennes Torres in Azure Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouse and Data Factory in Power BI environment Microsoft is merging Data Factory and Power BI Dataflows in one single ETL solution. It’s not a simple merging, but... 06 September 2023 12 min read
