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SQL Saturday Richmond Roundup
On the weekend of April 5, 2025, I attended (and Redgate sponsored) SQL Saturday Richmond. Having lived for 5 years in the Virginia Beach (and worked for a company there for 20 more), Richmond events...
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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 the Simple Talk authors used this function in a forthcoming article. and I realized I hadn’t heard of it before...
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Sponsoring PGDay Chicago this week
On Friday, April 25, Simple Talk is excited to be a sponsor of PGDay Chicago 2025. This will be the second year in a row that we sponsor this event, but the first time one of the Simple Talk staff...
View ArticleSecuring the DevOps Pipeline Part 2: Hardening Kubernetes and Cloud Security
Strengthening Deployments and Runtime Protection In Part 1 of this series, we explored the foundational aspects of securing a DevOps pipeline, including CI/CD security best practices, image scanning,...
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Azure Function & API Rate Limits: How NAT Gateway Helps You Stay Under the Radar
Rate limit is common when consuming API’s: They control how many calls you can make in an interval of time. I faced one challenge with the rate limit recently: My Azure function calls an external API...
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How to Load a Date Dimension in Microsoft Fabric using Macros in dbt?
With the popular data transformation tool dbt (data build tool), we have a bunch of interesting features at our disposal to write SQL more efficiently. One of those features is macros, which we’ll...
View ArticleFrappe vs. Laravel: REST API Integration Techniques
REST APIs are fundamental in enabling communication between applications. Frappe and Laravel offer large frameworks to build and consume REST APIs, facilitating easy integration and extending...
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PGDay Chicago 2025 Roundup
Just got back home last night about 2 AM, and I am sitting in a park thinking about the last couple of days. Held in downtown Chicago, PG Day Chicago 2025 was very well done, and to be quite honest,...
View ArticleThe power of connecting in person
To start off I want to be clear, I am a big proponent of telecommuting. Big. It has been at least 15 years since I worked in an office with other people on a regular basis. And those other people were...
View ArticleWorking with the MongoDB Database Tools
This article is part of Robert Sheldon's continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the items in the series, click here. The MongoDB Database Tools are a set of command-line utilities for working...
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