What is Agile Software Development?
Agile software development is an idea that self-organizing and cross-functional teams can collaborate in a way that makes the software development process responsive to change. True Agile does not...
View ArticleSQL Cursors
In SQL, a cursor lets you process data on a row by row basis. As we’ve seen, SQL is really good at manipulating data sets. We can group many rows together, update many rows at the same time, delete...
View ArticleSQL Tips & Tricks #1
I’ve been working and learning more about SQL a lot lately and I have found some pretty cool tips and tricks. I thought it would be good to start documenting some of these in a place where I could...
View ArticleITIL
In addition to working towards the Microsoft Technology Assistant Database certification test, there are some other certificates that I would like to eventually study for and obtain. One that is near...
View ArticleSQL Tips & Tricks #2
I’m still learning a lot about SQL and I want to be sure I keep track of all of the neat little tricks I find out about along the way. My SQl Tips & Tricks series isn’t on a regular schedule;...
View ArticlePython’s If __name__ == “__main__”
For the last few months, I’ve been grabbing data on every game on Board Game Geek. The script has changed a little bit and I thought it would be a good time to follow up on it. You can get the script...
View ArticleFunctions, Stored Procedures, and Views
In RDBM systems, there are many ways to write SQL code that is reusable. Three main ways are views, functions, and stored procedures. Views Views are very similar to tables except they contain...
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What Is The Kimball Group?
The Kimball Group is a team of people that specialize in designing data warehouses for business intelligence. They came up with a methodology for designing data warehouses and other general business...
View ArticleService Level Agreements
Several weeks ago, we reviewed ITIL, its practices, terminologies, and certification (you can read that here). Part of ITIL’s definitions and methodologies are something known as SLAs. An SLA is a...
View ArticleSQL Tips & Tricks #3
I have a lot to learn. I know that this is particularly true when it comes to SQL, so I try to note down neat things I learn about SQL and add them to one blog post when I have enough. If you missed...
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