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 DAX Table Functions in Power BI Paginated Reports: Advanced Patterns and Tips Advanced DAX patterns for Power BI paginated reports: simulate NOT IN, remove filter columns, build complex OR filters across multi-select... 22 March 2022 21 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
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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 Paginated Reports Part 2: Variables, EXCEPT/UNION, GROUPBY, and CALCULATETABLE DAX for Power BI paginated reports Part 2: scalar and table DAX variables, EXCEPT/UNION/INTERSECT for set operations, GROUPBY and SUMMARIZE,... 15 February 2022 13 min read
.NET Camilo Reyes in .NET Dapper ORM Guide: Queries, Mapping & Async in .NET Complete guide to Dapper in .NET 6 with async examples. Covers ExecuteAsync, QueryAsync, multi-mapping, stored procedures, transactions, and bulk operations... 14 February 2022 15 min read
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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
