Robert Sheldon Working with MySQL transactions MySQL transactions provide an effective method for executing multiple statements as a single unit, making it possible to safely modify... 15 June 2023 19 min read
PostgreSQL Grant Fritchey in PostgreSQL Manipulating Data In PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant So far in the series I’ve shown how to create databases, tables, constraints, indexes and schema. Now, it’s time to... 12 June 2023 13 min read
Oracle Chandra Rawat in Oracle A Guide to INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE Statements in Oracle In this article, we’ll be focusing on three of the most used SQL commands in Oracle: INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE.... 09 June 2023 19 min read
Testing Alex Bunardzic in Testing Why Test-Driven Development? (Part 1) Software development is a very tough discipline. Robert Martin (better known as Uncle Bob) holds that software development is the... 05 June 2023 15 min read
Performance Dennes Torres in Performance SQL Server 2022: Capture SQL Anti-Patterns One of the new Extended Event available in SQL Server 2022 is the query_antipattern. This extended event allows to... 01 June 2023 6 min read
T-SQL Programming Itzik Ben-Gan in T-SQL Programming T-SQL Gap-Filling Challenge A student of mine sent me a T-SQL challenge involving gap-filling of missing dates and balances. I found the challenge... 29 May 2023 19 min read
Career Pamela Mooney in Career From Tech Worker to IT Management: Ten Steps to Success Congratulations! You got the promotion!! Once the excitement and adrenaline rush of a promotion passes, it is common to find... 26 May 2023 34 min read
Dennes Torres in Azure Data Intelligence on light speed: Microsoft Fabric This article is based on exciting information just released at Microsoft’s Build conference on May 23, 2023. What we have... 24 May 2023 11 min read
MySQL Lukas Vileikis in MySQL Optimizing MySQL: Adding Data to Tables Welcome back to the MySQL optimization series! In case you haven’t been following this series, in the past couple of... 22 May 2023 21 min read
PostgreSQL Ryan Booz in PostgreSQL PostgreSQL Basics: A Template for Managing Database Privileges In the first two articles of this series about PostgreSQL privileges, we reviewed how to create roles, grant them privileges... 18 May 2023 14 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Changing log growth strategy in SQL Server 2022 When I first saw a bullet item stating SQL Server 2022 would support instant file initialization for log file growth,... 15 May 2023 6 min read
PostgreSQL Henrietta Dombrovskaya in PostgreSQL Uncovering the mysteries of PostgreSQL (auto) vacuum Welcome to the second blog of the “magic of parameters” series. In the first entry, I covered memory parameters, and... 12 May 2023 13 min read
Editorials Phil Factor in Editorials Xerox stars for accessibility I was working for Xerox when the Xerox Star, precursor to all the computer systems in use today, was introduced.... 08 May 2023 3 min read
MySQL Robert Sheldon in MySQL Importing data into a MySQL database using LOAD DATA Database and development teams often load data from plain text files into their MySQL databases. The files might be used... 04 May 2023 24 min read
PostgreSQL Ryan Booz in PostgreSQL PostgreSQL Basics: Essential psql Tips and Tricks Having access to the psql command-line tool is essential for any developers or DBAs that are actively working with and... 01 May 2023 14 min read
CI/CD Mercy Bassey in CI/CD Introduction to Using Bitbucket and CI/CD for Your App If you have been in the DevOps space, you should know about version control and must have worked with 0ne.... 28 April 2023 18 min read
PostgreSQL Ryan Booz in PostgreSQL PostgreSQL Basics: Getting started with psql PostgreSQL has a separate command-line tool that’s been available for decades and is included with any installation of PostgreSQL. Many... 24 April 2023 8 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming One use case for NOT using schema prefixes I’ve long been a huge advocate for always referencing objects with a schema prefix in SQL Server.… 20 April 2023 6 min read
Editorials Phil Factor in Editorials Let’s talk about Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT and Gobbledegook I use Chat-GPT occasionally, instead of Google, to get answers to technical questions. Well there is definite value in promise... 17 April 2023 3 min read
Web Aneesh Lal Gopalakrishnan in Web How to secure legacy ASP.NET MVC against Cross-Site (CSRF) Attacks Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks are widespread, and even some BigTech companies suffer from them. Netflix suffered in 2006 with... 12 April 2023 9 min read
