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
T-SQL Programming Greg Larsen in T-SQL Programming The basic T-SQL SELECT statement The SQL language is used across many relational database platforms. Greg Larsen explains the basics of the SELECT statement for... 22 February 2022 10 min read
BI Adam Aspin in BI DAX table functions for paginated reports: Part 2 To return detail data using DAX, use the table functions. Adam Aspin covers UNION, EXCEPT, INTERSECT, and CALCULATETABLE in this... 15 February 2022 12 min read
.NET Camilo Reyes in .NET A Practical Guide to Dapper Dapper is a lightweight framework for data access. Camilo Reyes explains how to query, call stored procedures, and more with... 14 February 2022 14 min read
Editorials Devyani Borade in Editorials Mighty Tester – Here we go round the Mulberry bush … 10 February 2022 1 min read
PostgreSQL Grant Fritchey in PostgreSQL How to back up and restore in PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant You can perform PostgreSQL backups with the pg_dump command. In this article, Grant Fritchey explains how to back up and... 08 February 2022 12 min read
Azure Dennes Torres in Azure Eight Azure SQL configurations you may have missed Azure SQL Database has been around for over ten years and is constantly evolving with new capabilities and options. Dennes... 07 February 2022 12 min read
Data Science Sanil Mhatre in Data Science Sentiment Analysis with Python Python is a modern general-purpose programming language that's very useful for analytics. Sanil Mhatre demonstrates sentiment analysis with Python.… 03 February 2022 17 min read