As every option available in Azure and particularly talking about SQL, for the classic question about What option is better for me? The classic answer is still valid and this is “It depends”. Your necessity or your business workload or architectural design would influence in a determinant way with your decision. In this article, I…
Book Review – How to speak so people really listen
I must confess that I was not a big fan of management books or those books that help you to improve your soft skills, but I reached a point in my career where I realize potentially miss out on progressing and promotions due to the lack of these soft skills. Nonetheless, primarily I saw myself…
Introduction to Scalar UDF inlining in MS SQL Server 2019
Historically the use of User Defined Functions aka UDF has represented a great option to encapsulate logic into Database reusable objects, nonetheless, during the implementation of scalar UDF (a variation based on the function’s output) for MS SQL Server we have been suffering painful performance penalties until the arrival of version 2019, so in this…
An introduction to pathlib module of Python
First at all, I would like to clarify something that maybe sounds evident, but sometimes we forget, the path is not a string, it is a fact that we must keep in mind to avoid headaches in our journey in Python. Since Python 3.4 in advance, we count on a powerful and versatile module called…