Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials A day without meetings Back when it was more difficult to work from home due to bandwidth, I would often head into the office... 20 April 2022 3 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI How to automate table level refresh in Power BI You can automate Power BI table refreshes using PowerShell, an Automation Account, and Runbook. Dennes Torres explains how in this... 18 April 2022 14 min read
MySQL Robert Sheldon in MySQL Working with MySQL Stored Procedures MySQL stored procedures are objects containing one or more SQL statements for reuse. They often contain business logic. Robert Sheldon... 15 April 2022 19 min read
Data Science Naveed Janvekar in Data Science Clustering data for insights Clustering data gives quick insights into large unstructured data. In this article, Naveed Janvekar explains clustering and provides a quick... 11 April 2022 6 min read
BI Sanil Mhatre in BI Finding deeper insights with Topic Modeling Topic modeling can be used to find more detailed insights into text than a word cloud can provide. Sanil Mhatre... 06 April 2022 23 min read
Oracle Samuel Nitsche in Oracle Why your PL/SQL needs to be testable – and how to do it: Part 1 Part 1: What is testable code, why is it important, and first glimpses on practices that can help Anyone familiar... 05 April 2022 15 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Wanted: Simple Talk Editor Almost five years ago, one of my local SQL Server community friends sent me a text message about an opening... 31 March 2022 3 min read
Culture Grant Fritchey in Culture Site Reliability Engineering vs. DevOps What’s the difference between Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps? In this article, Grant Fritchey defines each one and compares them.… 29 March 2022 5 min read
BI Adam Aspin in BI Tips and tricks with DAX table functions in paginated reports There are several common challenges when creating paginated reports from Power BI datasets. In this article, Adam Aspin explains how... 22 March 2022 20 min read
Oracle Jonathan Lewis in Oracle Oracle subquery caching and subquery pushing In this article, Jonathan Lewis discusses why you might want to stop the optimizer from unnesting some subqueries and how... 18 March 2022 12 min read
Learn SQL Server Greg Larsen in Learn SQL Server Ordering a result set in SQL Server To guarantee the order of a result set, you must use an ORDER BY clause. In this article, Greg Larsen... 18 March 2022 12 min read
MySQL Robert Sheldon in MySQL Working with MySQL Views Views in MySQL allow you to save a predefined SQL query. Robert Sheldon explains the benefits of views and how... 16 March 2022 19 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Supporting Women in Technology We make a special effort in March to acknowledge the accomplishments of women. Women have been making gains in many... 02 March 2022 3 min read
Theory and design Joe Celko in Theory and design The problem with averages Everyone learns to calculate an average in school, but, as Joe Celko shows, there are better ways to summarize data.… 01 March 2022 8 min read
PostgreSQL Grant Fritchey in PostgreSQL Data Types in PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant PostgreSQL has an unusually large number of data types. Grant Fritchey reviews each data type and discusses the good and... 01 March 2022 17 min read
Featured Rohan Kapoor in Featured What is Change Management? Change management is a process to prepare an organization to implement change. In this article, Rohan Kapoor explains the five... 28 February 2022 8 min read
MySQL Robert Sheldon in MySQL Working with MySQL tables After getting a new database in place, the next step is to create tables. In this article, Robert Sheldon walks... 28 February 2022 19 min read
Featured Kathi Kellenberger in Featured What do employees want? The “great resignation” is one of today’s most popular news topics. It’s an employee’s market as companies have difficulty keeping... 23 February 2022 3 min read
Oracle Jonathan Lewis in Oracle The effects of NULL with NOT IN on Oracle transformations IN and NOT IN subqueries are frequently used in Oracle. Jonathan Lewis explains how the optimizer handles NULL with IN... 22 February 2022 11 min read
