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Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials SQL Server 2022 is a game changer Microsoft announced at the Ignite conference that SQL Server 2022 is on the way, and several significant new features should... 03 November 2021 2 min read
Security Robert Sheldon in Security Ransomware: A world under threat Ransomware has threatened many organizations over the past few years. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains the history of ransomware... 01 November 2021 12 min read
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Azure Dennes Torres in Azure Performance of querying blob storage with SQL It’s possible to query blob storage using SQL, but what about performance? In this article, Dennes Torres compares several query... 21 October 2021 14 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Back in the office Last week, Steve Jones (@way0utwest), Grant Fritchey (@GFritchey), and I spent a few days at the Redgate Headquarters in Cambridge.... 20 October 2021 3 min read
.NET Joydip Kanjilal in .NET Building and consuming GraphQL API in ASP.NET Core 5 GraphQL is a platform-independent, language-neutral query language and may be used to run queries and retrieve data. Joydip Kanjilal explains... 20 October 2021 23 min read
BI Sanil Mhatre in BI Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis: Data Visualization in Tableau Tableau is a popular visualization tool used by organizations around the world. In this article Sanil Mhatre demonstrates sentiment analysis... 18 October 2021 19 min read
Performance Edward Pollack in Performance Automating Extended Events data collection It’s not difficult to set up an extended event session, but reviewing and saving the data can be complex. In... 04 October 2021 18 min read
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Learn SQL Server Greg Larsen in Learn SQL Server Working with SQL Server identity columns SQL Server identity columns are easy to add to a table, but you must understand how they work to use... 24 September 2021 12 min read
PowerShell Greg Moore in PowerShell Building an ETL with PowerShell There are many ways to load data into a SQL Server database. In this article, Greg Moore demonstrates how to... 22 September 2021 11 min read
