Check Azure SQL DB Space Used
A couple of days ago I was doing some cleaning on some Azure SQL DBs and shrinking some files to lower the bill. To check my progress I needed to check the size before/after the task in an easy way for multiple Azure SQL DBs. Check Azure SQL DB storage …
[Video] Office Hours: 25 Answers in 10 Minutes
It’s time for a speed round, a rapid-fire tour of your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento: Here’s what we discussed: 00:00 Start 00:17 SteveTV: Hi Brent! Are there solutions for managing SQL Agent jobs that obviate the …
[Video] Office Hours: The Long One
You posted a lot of great questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and I spent almost an hour covering these: Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 02:05 Kulstad: I’m using Ola Hallengren’s maintenance scripts for my db maintenance …
Managing Files and Folders with Python – Data Engineering with Fabric
What is a data lake? It is just a bunch of files organized by folders. Keeping these files organized prevents your data lake from becoming a data swamp. Today, we are going to learn about a Python library that can help you. Business Problem Our manager …
A First Look at SSMS 20
Recently Microsoft released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v20.0, which is a major release of the primary tool that many of us use to work with SQL Server. Over the last few years, the tools team at Microsoft has worked to separate the tools from …
What is Eventstream in Microsoft Fabric? – Part 1
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Join Me for Free Live SQL Server Training Next Week.
Next week, I’m teaching my very favorite class live online, for free, two different ways – one with all slides, and one with all demos. Whatever way you like to learn, I’ve got you covered. So, what’s the subject? You’re comfort …
Pagination and ordering by large values
Pagination is a technique for limiting output. Think of Google search results, shopping the electronics category on Amazon, or browsing tagged questions on Stack Overflow. Nobody could consume all of the results in a single shot, and no site wants to s …
Tinkering with Fabric Data Factory Framework Functionality
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Quick and Effective Migration Between CosmosDB Collections Using ADF
This document aims to explain the process of using ADF (Azure data Factory) to make a copy of a Cosmos DB (Instance A) collection into a new collection in another Cosmos DB Instance effectively and cost effectively. For example, here is our Instance …
How to Optimize Power BI Semantic Model Performance with Vertipaq Analyzer
The performance of a Power BI semantic model – formerly known as dataset – depends on a variety of factors. One of the biggest influences is the data model itself: did you put everything into one single big table (you might found out writing DAX might …
[Video] Office Hours in Snowy Telluride, Colorado
On a beautiful sunny afternoon in the mountains, I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Audio is a little rough on this one because I used a new wireless microphone and forgot to put the wind shield on it. If you …
Does Your GROUP BY Order Matter?
Sometimes when you do GROUP BY, the order of the columns does matter. For example, these two SELECT queries produce different results:CREATE INDEX Location_DisplayName ON dbo.Users(Location, DisplayName); SELECT TOP 100 Location, DisplayName, COUNT(*) …
Managed Vs Unmanaged Tables – Data Engineering with Fabric
Managed Vs Unmanaged Tables Microsoft Fabric was released as general availability on November 15th, 2023. I will be creating a series of articles to get you up to speed on how to manipulate data in the lake house using Spark. I really like the speed of …
Free Live Webcasts: Slide & Demo Versions of How to Think Like the Engine
You’re comfortable writing queries to get the data you need. But you’re uncomfortable if someone asks you how it works, how SQL Server and Azure SQL DB turn your queries into results. You know there are execution plans, but … you’re u …