learn

Quickstart: Connect to a SQL database from a Jupyter Notebook

In this quickstart, use Jupyter Notebook in Visual Studio Code to quickly derive business insights. Use the mssql-python driver for Python to connect to your SQL database, read the data, and then ...
learn

Quickstart: Apache Arrow with the mssql-python driver for Python

In this quickstart, use the mssql-python driver's built-in Arrow fetch methods to retrieve SQL Server data as columnar Apache Arrow tables. Arrow's columnar memory format enables high-performance ...
cloud

How to Use Python UDF Logging for Pipeline Observability

Ensure data pipeline reliability and troubleshoot issues fast by using standard Python logging directly in BigQuery UDFs for real-time observability.

Day 4: The story of how I kept getting stuck on errors while trying to save records with SQLite

Since it's easy to get stuck if you connect it to the screen right away, I'll run it only in the terminal today.Prepared Git firstGit is a tool for keeping a history of code changes. Even if AI ...

SQLDoom turns database queries into a Doom engine

Someone finally answered an internet complaint about a famous 90s shooter, and the fix turned into something nobody saw coming ...
note

[With SQL/Python Code] A Practical Guide to Preventing SQL Aggregation Errors with Automated Testing | Verifying JOINs, SUMs, Duplicates, and Data Inconsistencies

You wrote the SQL, and it returned the correct results. Even though you thought that, aggregation errors are sometimes discovered later. The scary thing about SQL is ...
devblogs

Canada’s 2026 time zone updates: guidance for Microsoft SQL

Affected locations in British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba will not turn their clocks back at 02:00 local time on November 1, 2026. They will remain at UTC−07:00, UTC−06:00, and UTC−05:00, ...
aws.amazon

What is Django?

Django is software you can use to develop web applications quickly and efficiently. Most web applications have several common functions, like authentication, information retrieval from a database, and ...
theregister

Clever database, but can it run Doom?

"Can it run Doom?" now applies to databases, as the author of DOOMQL has released a far more visually accurate port. There's a saying: "Be careful what you wish for." In 2025, we wrote a piece about a ...
Forbes

Best Coding Bootcamps Online

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...
snowflake

Zero to Snowflake

Welcome to the Zero to Snowflake Quickstart! This guide is a consolidated journey through key areas of the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. You will start with the fundamentals of warehousing and data ...