Joe Celko in Theory and design Bad Data and Dirty Databases Many years ago, my wife and I wrote an article for Datamation, a major trade publication at the time, under... 28 August 2024 10 min read
Chisom Kanu in Development EsProc SPL and SQL: Complementary, But Different, Technologies Have you ever surfed the internet and felt overwhelmed by personalized advertisements that appear to know your every desire? Have... 26 August 2024 23 min read
Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Effective Strategies for Storing and Parsing JSON in SQL Server Like XML, JSON is an open standard storage format for data, metadata, parameters, or other unstructured or semi-structured data. Because... 23 August 2024 26 min read
Robert Sheldon in NoSQL Introducing Schema Validation in MongoDB Similar to other NoSQL database systems, MongoDB is known for its flexible and variable schema models, unlike relational database systems... 21 August 2024 21 min read
Joe Celko in Theory and design LIKE Constraints In this article, I will cover a bit about the LIKE operator, including how it works, and a bit of... 19 August 2024 10 min read
Lee Asher in PostgreSQL PostgreSQL Partitioning: The Most Useful Feature You May Never Have Used Partitioning in PostgreSQL was for many years a feature almost entirely ignored, and even today is often thought of only... 16 August 2024 10 min read
Farooq Aziz in Snowflake Change Data Capture Pipeline Automation in Snowflake This article offers technical guidance on automating updates and tracking changes of data examples using Snowflake’s CDC capabilities. The examples... 15 August 2024 12 min read
Aisha Bukar in MySQL MySQL vs PostgreSQL: Which Open-Source Database is right for you? When I joined a growing startup company as a backend developer, we were at crossroads choosing between MySQL and PostgreSQL... 12 August 2024 12 min read
Bravin Wasike in CI/CD Why Every Project Needs a CI/CD Pipeline No Matter How Small Have you ever experienced a scenario as a developer when a seemingly simple weekend bug fix throws your entire project... 09 August 2024 15 min read
Lukas Vileikis in MySQL MySQL Index Overviews: B-Tree Indexes In this first entry in a multipart series on indexes, I will cover the most important index type in MySQL,... 05 August 2024 19 min read
Aaron Bertrand in SQL Server Days of the Week, Bitwise Edition I recently had to help support synchronization and distribution of workloads between multiple servers. Some of this work involves Task... 02 August 2024 7 min read
Steve Jones in Editorials 5 Ways to Spend Your 2024 Learning and Development Budget in the US Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at our discretion. This... 30 July 2024 7 min read
Marcella McKeown in Editorials Insights from Redgate’s PASS Senior Program Manager In today’s editorial, guest writer Marcella McKeown shares some insights from her tenure from working on the program of PASS... 27 July 2024 5 min read
Koen Verbeeck in BI How to Stream Data from Azure Event Hubs into a Fabric Eventhouse At Microsoft Build 2024, Real-Time Intelligence was announced with the Real-Time hub as its centralized location for all data-in-motion. This... 26 July 2024 9 min read
Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Index cleanup : Harder than it looks I’m not the first person to write about cleaning up unused or redundant indexes. You can read many articles about... 22 July 2024 7 min read
Goodness Woke in Web An Introduction to Frappe Framework: Features and Benefits Frappe is a full-stack, battery-included web framework with MariaDB as the database, written in Python and JavaScript. Frappe is a... 19 July 2024 16 min read
Boris Novikov in PostgreSQL Making Temporal Databases Work. Part 2: Computing Aggregates Across Temporal Versions The temporal database is a database that can keep information on time when the facts represented in the database were,... 16 July 2024 20 min read
Robert Sheldon in MongoDB Working with Documents in the MongoDB Compass GUI Throughout this series, I’ve discussed various ways to work with the documents in a MongoDB collection. If you’ve been following... 10 July 2024 23 min read
Matt Hilbert in News Hot off the press Every day an avalanche of news hits us from all directions in all kinds of media. So what are the... 09 July 2024 5 min read
Aaron Bertrand in Database Administration It’s a recovery strategy, not a backup strategy I’ve talked about it before; you shouldn’t have a backup strategy, you should have a recovery strategy. I can’t possibly... 08 July 2024 12 min read
