Replace Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough

Yet another career Washingtonian has taken it upon herself to stand in the way of the agenda for which the American people ...
Microsoft

Query Store hints in SQL Server 2022

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Query Store is one of the most powerful database-scoped features in SQL Server for troubleshooting performance and improving the stability of your database ...
GitHub

apache-hadoop-connect-hive-power-bi-directquery.md

This article describes how to connect Microsoft Power BI to Azure HDInsight Interactive Query clusters and visualize Apache Hive data using direct query. The example provided loads the data from a ...
CNN

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg is trying to check the conservative majority

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is in the liberal minority on the Supreme Court but has a way of steering the debate on a case. Ginsburg spoke to CNN in a rare interview in her chambers this week. The ...
Slate

What’s the Deal With Algorithms?

Can I level with you? I’m not always sure I know what people are talking about when they say algorithm? You’re not alone: Honestly, I haven’t always been sure what I meant when I said it either. But ...
Slate

Take the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s

The Vault is Slate’s new history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Update, 7.3: Read more about ...
TechRepublic

Is SQL a legitimate programming language?

Developers often dispute the merits of SQL as a legitimate programming language, but this misses the point. SQL is a powerful 4GL for accessing data. Let’s face it: Bigotry within the ranks of the ...