ChatGPT in SQL Server – Practical examples
Introduction ChatGPT in SQL Server In this article, we will learn some basic examples of ChatGPT in SQL Server. In a previous article, we had an interview with ChatGPT an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. If you do not know how to use it yet, you can go …
Understanding Azure Synapse Analytics Pricing
Introduction Azure Synapse Analytics combines data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and data analytics. It is a cloud-based limitless data integration and analytics platform. It provides a cloud platform to create data pipelines from various s …
How to Improve the Quality of Database Releases using Clones
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Creating Animated Line Plots with Python
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Retrieving MySQL data from within Python
Applications of all types commonly access MySQL to retrieve, add, update, or delete data. The applications might be written in Python, Java, C#, or another programming language. Most languages support multiple methods for working with a MySQL database …
I’m Coming to Gothenburg and Oslo This Fall!
Back in 2020 before the wheels came off the world, I’d scheduled visits to Gothenburg and Oslo for their annual SQL Server events. Now that things are back to normal, it’s back on! Data Saturday Gothenburg, Aug 26 & 28, 2023 – Mon …
Learn PowerShell in 30 Minutes a Day, Free, Starting Now.
The clock starts now! You’re a production database administrator responsible for the health, security, and uptime of many database servers. You’ve been pointing and clicking your way through SSMS for years, scripting out T-SQL to files, but …
Testing before coding: shifting farther left
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Getting Out of Character
Pre-Unicode Younger programmers have grown up with ASCII and Unicode as the only ways of representing character data in a computer. But in the dark ages, before we invented dirt and entered into the stone age, there were other contenders. The Control D …
Can You Nest Transactions in SQL Server?
To find out, let’s set up a simple status log table:DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.StatusLog; CREATE TABLE dbo.StatusLog (TimeItHappened DATETIME2 PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED, Step VARCHAR(20)); GO And then let’s try a two-part transaction:BEGIN TRAN I …
Event exceeds the number of allowable bound actions
Did you know that there is a limit to the number of actions you can add to a single event in Extended Events? While I was playing around with Trace Flag 9708 for my previous blog post, one of the things I wanted to try to see was whether it would be ea …
How to create a Sankey Chart in Power BI Desktop
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How to Forecast Data in Power BI
Introduction In this article, we will learn how to Forecast data in Power BI. Forecasting in Power BI will help us to predict the future based on our current information. You can easily forecast in Power BI by following some simple steps. Requirements …
The business value of frequent deployments
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Find 40 Problems in This Stored Procedure.
Aaron Bertrand posted a challenge: We’re going to use the AdventureWorks sample database (get your copy here), where the folks in marketing requested a list of users to e-mail a new promotional campaign. The customers need to meet at least one of the f …