Louis Davidson in T-SQL Programming Exploring the SQL Server CHOOSE Function I preface a lot of what I write with whether or not it is for a “practical” use. One of... 21 April 2025 39 min read
Boris Novikov in PostgreSQL A Method for Managing Hierarchies in PostgreSQL The Postgres database management system was originally designed as object-relational. We remind why PostgreSQL is an object-relational rather than just... 17 April 2025 22 min read
Lukas Vileikis in Blogs Announcing Database Frontiers: a Database Conference You Haven’t Yet Heard About Database Frontiers is a new database conference hitting the spotlight come October 15th, 2025. Here’s everything you need to know.… 15 April 2025 3 min read
Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman in Oracle Oracle’s Limited Cloud Vendor Licensing It’s nothing new for vendors to find ways to lock in customers to their products and cloud services. Oracle recently... 15 April 2025 3 min read
Robert Sheldon in MongoDB Working with MongoDB Shell Throughout this series, I’ve provided a number of examples of how to run commands in MongoDB Shell (mongosh). However, the... 10 April 2025 18 min read
Joe Celko in Theory and design Data Elements on a Nominal Scale “On a scale from 1 to 10, what color is your favorite letter of the alphabet?” –Slogan on a T-shirt... 08 April 2025 10 min read
Ganesh Gopal Masti Jayaram in Databases Data Quality: The Foundation for Business Agility and Growth We live in a world awash with vast amounts of data. Today’s modern enterprises generate and rely on vast amounts... 04 April 2025 14 min read
Grant Fritchey in PostgreSQL Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) in PostgreSQL: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant It’s a tale as old as time. You want to read data. Your mate wants to write data. You’re stepping... 02 April 2025 15 min read
Anil Kumar Moka in Snowflake Load Data into Snowflake Using Python with Pandas Loading data into Snowflake is a common need. Using Python and pandas is a common go-to solution for data professionals.... 30 March 2025 16 min read
Joe Celko in Theory and design The CREATE DOMAIN Statement One of the least known, least used features of SQL is the CREATE DOMAIN statement. It does not exist in... 27 March 2025 6 min read
Lee Asher in PostgreSQL The Wide World of GiST Indexes In Parts I (Solving the Overlap Query Problem in PostgreSQL) and II (Overlapping Ranges in Subsets in PostgreSQL) of... 25 March 2025 15 min read
Aisha Bukar in MySQL MySQL vs PostgreSQL – String Datatypes A very common task in creating a database is to store string data. For example, words, paragraph(s) or even documents.... 20 March 2025 22 min read
Aisha Bukar in MySQL MySQL vs. PostgreSQL: Character Sets and Collations When working with strings in a database system, you need to ensure that the data is stored, sorted, and compared... 17 March 2025 18 min read
Joe Celko in Theory and design Scales & Measurements If you’re going to work with databases, you probably ought to know something about data. In particular, we don’t put... 07 March 2025 11 min read
Robert Sheldon in MongoDB Importing and exporting data in MongoDB Compass When working with MongoDB, you’ll likely need to import or export document data from time-to-time. You can use MongoDB Compass... 05 March 2025 16 min read
Anil Kumar Moka in Snowflake Implementing Enterprise Data Security in Snowflake: Practical Concepts As a data engineer who’s spent the last few years implementing enterprise-scale security in Snowflake, I’ve witnessed firsthand how challenging... 04 March 2025 16 min read
Chisom Kanu in MySQL MySQL Shell Basic Configuration Management (Part 3 – Disk I/O and Storage Optimization) So far, in our previous articles on MySQL optimization, we’ve looked at basic configuration management and memory and CPU tuning... 27 February 2025 15 min read
Louis Davidson in T-SQL Programming Crazy number of Parameters… and a challenge The other day, my lovable coworker and frequent Simple Talk writer: Grant Fritchey, sent this post on X: So I... 24 February 2025 35 min read
Rodrigo Ribeiro Gomes in T-SQL Programming AI in SQL Server 2025: Embeddings One of the cornerstones of AI is a concept called embeddings. Virtually every AI model, whether for text, video, or... 18 February 2025 48 min read
Lukas Vileikis in MySQL MySQL Index Overviews: Descending B-Tree Indexes Most anyone who works with indexes should be familiar with B-tree indexes. These are the most commonly used data structures... 13 February 2025 11 min read
