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Hot off the press
Every day an avalanche of news hits us from all directions in all kinds of media. So what are the hottest topics people are currently talking about and commenting on? To give you an idea, here’s a...
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Microsoft Fabric: New Features you should not miss
Microsoft Build was full of new features announcements and the fact it was so close to the Fabric May Updates only helped to overwhelm us with new features to learn. GraphQL A new and powerful method...
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Working with Documents in the MongoDB Compass GUI
This article is part of Robert Sheldon's continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the items in the series, click here. Throughout this series, I’ve discussed various ways to work with the documents...
View ArticleIntroducing Simple Talks: The Go-To Podcast for Database Professionals
If you’re a database professional, IT expert, or tech enthusiast, we’ve got something exciting for you—Simple Talks, our very own podcast. We are starting out with twice monthly episodes covering...
View ArticleSimple Talk has a fresh new look and feel
Simple Talk has always revolved around Redgate’s value of keeping things ‘ingeniously simple’. This is something which was reflected in the previous iteration of the blog, but keeping it fresh and...
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Making Temporal Databases Work. Part 2: Computing Aggregates Across Temporal...
The temporal database is a database that can keep information on time when the facts represented in the database were, are, or will be valid. We briefly described major concepts of temporal databases...
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T-SQL Tuesday #176 Roundup of advice
There was a lot of great advice, and I really wonder how much of this I would have listened to myself back in the day. In no order other than the order I found them in my comments and then XTwitter....
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Auditing SQL Server – Part 2 – Hardware Audit
This is the second part of my series on auditing SQL Server. In the first part, I discussed basic server discovery and documentation. It covered some items to check at the hardware level and...
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Microsoft Fabric: Moving Dataflows Gen 2 to different workspaces
Dataflows Gen 2 are not supported by source control and deployment pipelines yet. When we need to promote a dataflow from Dev to Test and Prod, we need to move the dataflow manually. However, the...
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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 “batteries included” framework because it equips developers with a...
View ArticleIndex 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 how non-clustered indexes are expensive to store and maintain, that they can occupy...
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AI Studio and The New AI Features
When Microsoft announced the new AI Studio, it was easy to mistake it by any of the other studios available. All AI resources in Azure use a different studio to perform their tasks, so this gets a...
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Auditing SQL Server – Part 3 – SQL Server Configuration Audit
This is the continuation of my series on auditing SQL Server. In the first part, I discussed basic server discovery and documentation. The next section went over server hardware configuration and...
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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 shows the commitment of Microsoft to make Fabric your...
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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 Summit. Having worked with Marcella for many years with the PASS...
View ArticleFall is around the corner, and hence the PASS Data Community Summit, too
Welcome to the dog days of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. It is hot, so if you are like me you, are preparing for the Fall, with cooler weather and the start of the holiday season. While the Great...
View Article5 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 is something I encourage you to negotiate when you are considering a job or...
View ArticleAmplify your Experience – How to Start Writing and Speaking
At PASS Data Community Summit 2023, Tonie Huizer and Tony Davis joined forces to deliver a one-hour session all about how to get started with sharing your technical knowledge and experience with...
View ArticleMicrosoft Fabric: Differences Between %Run and Notebook.Run
When developing notebooks in Microsoft Fabric, we have two different methods to call one notebook from another: %Run and MSSparkUtils.notebook.run We need to decide which method we would like to use on...
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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 Scheduler and, be honest, who knew Task Scheduler was this...
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