Warehouse Load Patterns – Part 2 – Load Patterns
This continues and finishes my two-part series on warehouse load patterns. There are many methods to transfer […]
Archives du mois : décembre 2023
[Video] Office Hours: Holiday Speed Round Edition
Most of the https://pollgab.com/room/brento questions from this episode had really short and sweet answers. Let’s take a break […]
The Profiler Extension in Azure Data Studio (ADS)
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built on Visual Studio Code. I’ve written a few articles […]
Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for December 2023
New this month: more work on letting sp_Blitz run with limited permissions, nicer Markdown output, sp_BlitzLock compatibility with […]
Comment utiliser les rapports SSMSInfoReports
Pour comprendre à quoi servent mes rapports custom pour SSMS (SSMSInfoReports), comment les installer et les utiliser : […]
Eager Aggregation in SQL queries
Aggregation is a widely used way to summarize the content of a database. It is usually expressed […]
[Video] Working on First Responder Kit Pull Requests
For this month’s First Responder Kit releases, I worked through most of the pull requests live on my […]
Understanding Maximum Server Memory in SQL SERVER
Editor: For SQL developers looking to optimize their SQL Server’s performance, one crucial aspect to understand and implement […]
Most Overlooked Features in Power BI
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Introducing the MongoDB Document
MongoDB is a document database. As such, the data is stored as individual documents. A document is […]
The Annual Data Professional Salary Survey Closes This Week!
Take the Data Professional Salary Survey now. The 2020s have been tough: a pandemic, a recession, layoffs, and […]
Building Reports with Power BI vs Tableau from SQL Server ...
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Docker Security Principles Overview
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Creating a Hyperscale Database in Azure Using the Azure Portal
Data is the lifeblood of contemporary enterprises in the digital age. Managing and growing databases to fulfill these […]
[Video] Office Hours: 21 Good Questions
This one is a 3-part episode: I take 21 questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento and then later, work on First […]
Counting more efficiently
Nearly a decade ago, I wrote a post called “Bad habits : Counting rows the hard way.” […]
[Video] Office Hours: Wrong Side of the Bed Edition
I woke up on the wrong side of the bed after a nap. How does that even happen?!? […]
Sending resource alerts on Managed Instance using db_mail
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Why Don't You Upgrade in Place?
Ask a senior-level SQL Server or Windows administrator about doing in-place upgrades and you’ll likely get a negative […]
Interesting Aurora MySQL Feature: The Buffer Pool Survives Restarts
“Documentation! Hey, look at that.” Lemme start this off by saying this is probably irrelevant to you. (It’s […]
Le DataOps pour Power BI et Microsoft Fabric
Petit article de retour sur un événement communautaire du Club Power BI Les communautés sont des groupes […]
Using a SQL Tokenizer
Imagine this: you have several directories full of SQL script files, and you need to know where […]
Configuring an SSIS ForEach Loop for Multiple File Types
The Problem The SSIS Foreach Loop component has a limitation when it comes to selecting different sets of […]
Using Spark Jobs for Multiple Lakehouse Maintenance in Microsoft Fabric
I have published videos and articles before about Lakehouse maintenance. In this article I want to address […]
Cumulative Update #24 for SQL Server 2019 RTM
The 24th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2019 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft […]
Searching an Encrypted Column
When encrypting a database column, equality searching can be preserved by using a deterministic encryption algorithm. A deterministic […]
Running Azure CosmosDB queries from SQL Server using ODBC driver
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MySQL Error Log Management in DevOps Operations
When it comes to the development and operations (DevOps), one thing stands out as a critical aspect […]
[Video] Office Hours: Sunshine Edition
You know how this works: you posta the questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento, and I giva the answers: Here’s what […]
Fabric Notebooks and Deployment Pipelines
On my article about Fabric source control extended features, I explained how Microsoft included the notebooks on […]
[Video] Office Hours: Really Good Questions Edition
Y’all were on fire in this one! You posted great questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and I worked through ’em: […]
Arc enabled Azure migration & modernization journey
As business demands evolve, applications must be modernized or replaced. To maximize business value, organizations are leveraging cloud […]
SQL GROUP BY Alias – An Oracle feature that would ...
The post SQL GROUP BY Alias – An Oracle feature that would be great in SQL Server appeared […]
What Would You Ask Your Predecessor? Get Answers with ChatGPT.
So many times in my career, I’ve come across a questionable query, table design, or server configuration decision, […]
Exploring PostgreSQL Indexes
In this blog, we continue our exploration on PostgreSQL indexes which we started here. In that article, […]
What is subsetting, what are the advantages, and how does ...
The post What is subsetting, what are the advantages, and how does it make test data management easier? […]
Identify log write limits on Azure SQL Managed Instance using ...
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SQL Window Functions Series: LAG() and LEAD()
In the realm of data analysis, being able to understand the relationships between sequential data points is paramount. […]
Window Function Basics – PARTITION BY
One of the things that I’ve done over the last year to improve my T-SQL skills is learn […]
How using a database monitoring tool helps DBAs create value ...
The post How using a database monitoring tool helps DBAs create value for the whole organization appeared first […]
Learn Spark SQL Date and Time Functions
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SQL Server: Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads – use or ...
I used to believe this option was something almost absolute: it should be enabled as best practice. […]
How Has Inflation Affected Your Salary? Let’s Find Out Together.
The 2020s have been tough: a pandemic, a recession, layoffs, and inflation. Inflation makes things particularly tricky because […]
Microsoft dévoile les mises à jour apportées à SQL Server ...
Microsoft dévoile les mises à jour apportées à SQL Server Data Tools 17.8 dans Visual Studio 2022, […]
Plansplaining, part 20. SQL Graph (part 1)
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Always on Availability Groups for SQL Server containers on Kubernetes ...
Recently, I had the privilege of presenting with OJ Ngo from DH2i, our partners who offer the cluster […]
Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? December 2023 ...
Is your company hiring for a database position as of December 2023? Do you wanna work with the […]
Understanding SQL Join Types
Understanding how to join the data in one table to another is crucial for any data analyst […]
GitHub Copilot – Our Best Ally to for T-SQL
Introduction Previously, we wrote about Copilot and showed how to install and work with it. A GitHub copilot […]
Championing DevOps: A Panel Webinar
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