Find Recent Superstars: Answers & Discussion
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SQL Server Clustered Index Seek Operation Generates Poor Query Performance
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“As DBAs, should we be worried about our jobs because ...
The post “As DBAs, should we be worried about our jobs because of AI?” and other burning questions […]
Join Me in Orange County for Tuning Databases in One ...
You’ve got production databases in SQL Server or Azure SQL DB, and you want to make ’em faster. […]
Sessions You Should Attend at SQLBits Online 2024
SQLBits 2024 is next month, and the session agenda is out, including the Microsoft-led sessions. If you’re going […]
Add Additional Nodes to SQL Server 2022 and Windows Server ...
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Meet Claude, the new AI
Introduction to Claude This time we will meet Claude, a new AI technology. Previously, we talk about ChatGPT, […]
Upgrade SQL Server on your workstation
Lately, I’ve seen many people struggling to upgrade their workstation to the latest version of SQL Server. […]
[Video] Office Hours: Hot Tub Edition
Today’s Office Hours comes from a very different office! I climbed into the hot tub to review your […]
What Every DBA Should Know about Always On Readable Secondaries
This article aims to demonstrate the lesser-known impact of Always On Readable secondaries. In this article, we will […]
Redgate Summit: The Database Landscape
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Query Exercise: Find Recent Superstars
For this week’s Query Exercise, we’re working with the Stack Overflow database, and our business users have asked […]
Finding Long Values Faster: Answers & Discussion
In last week’s Query Exercise, our developers had a query that wasn’t going as fast as they’d like: […]
Dynamically Create Tables in Power BI with DAX Functions
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Forget the Models, Your Data is the Secret Sauce for ...
Credit: Image generated by Google Bard Generative AI (GenAI) models like GPT, Gemini, PaLM, DALL-E, and others offer […]
#TSQL2sday Roundup: The Most Recent Issues You Closed.
For this month’s TSQLTuesday, I asked y’all to describe the most recent issues you closed. If you ask […]
Database Feature Toggles
In software development the concept of feature toggles are used to selectively turn on and off features. […]
Tutorial: Using the hierarchyid Data Type
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[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About Microsoft Databases
Post your database questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me discuss on the […]
JQ – Tool for Querying JSON documents using the CLI
In my role as a Data Engineer, I have an ever-increasing need for Querying JSON documents using the […]
Functions and Procedures: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant
One of the most useful constructs in SQL Server is the stored procedure. It gives you a […]
Query Exercise: Finding Long Values Faster
Our developers have come to us with a problem query that isn’t as fast as they’d like. Using […]
Improving Cardinality Estimation: Answers & Discussion
Your challenge for last week was to take this Stack Overflow database query to show the top-ranking users […]
Attention SQLBits 2024 Attendees!
Get ready to soar into SQLBits 2024 with us in Farnborough, UK March 19th – 23rd! Join keynote […]
Scientific Calculations in Power BI – Cube, Square, Logarithms, Powers, ...
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The Last Ticket/Issue I Closed #TSQL2sday
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, I asked y’all to write about the most recent ticket or issue that […]
SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Winter 2023
The short story: SQL Server 2019 continues its utter domination of the Microsoft data platform landscape this quarter. […]
Leave it better than you found it
This is for the folks who still have to log into remote machines and do work manually […]
Writing SQL Server code with AI using GitHub Copilot
Introduction In this article, we will see how to work with GitHub Copilot. GitHub copilot is an interesting […]
Planning a Database Testing Strategy for Flyway
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Automating BCP with PowerShell
I was talking with a good friend that has an environment with terabytes of information and to […]
[Video] Office Hours: Lumberjack Edition
On a chilly January day, I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Yes, it actually gets cold […]
Fun with Powershell
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Use a Table Variable for Logging Entries that Need to ...
Introduction Table variables are special types of local variables that can be used to store data temporarily, similar […]
LangChain Prompt Templates with OpenAI LLMs
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Query Exercise: Improving Cardinality Estimation
Your challenge for this week is to tune a query. Say Stack Overflow has a dashboard that shows […]
Database Changes to Find Tagged Questions Faster: Answers and Discussion
In the last Query Exercise discussion, we hit a performance wall when we were trying to quickly find […]
Dimensional Modeling Case Study Part 2 – Days Dimension
Introduction In our second case study on dimensional modelling, we delve into the intricacies of managing time-related dimensions, […]
#TSQL2sday Invitation: Describe the Most Recent Issue You Closed.
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blogothon where we get together and write about a different topic. I’m hosting […]
Resolving the MERGE statement attempted to UPDATE or DELETE the ...
The post Resolving the MERGE statement attempted to UPDATE or DELETE the same row more than once error […]
Announcing the first Microsoft Fabric Community Conference!
We are excited to welcome attendees to the 1st Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (previously known as the Data […]
Fixing the Synapse Error « Available workspace capacity exceeded error (Livy ...
If you are working with Notebooks in Azure Synapse Analytics and multiple people are using the same Spark […]
Deploying Azure SQL Database Using an ARM Template
Provisioning infrastructure in a timely and reliable manner is essential for agile development. One well-liked method that lets […]
Adding an AI Policy for Authors
In the last few months, we’ve noticed quite a bit of content submitted that seems overly structured in […]
Office Hours: PowerBI & Fabric Q&A with Eugene Meidinger
Today’s Office Hours has a different topic. Eugene Meidinger dropped by to answer your business intelligence questions. Follow […]
Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? February 2024 ...
Is your company hiring for a database position as of February 2024? Do you wanna work with the […]
Feature Flags in Data Projects
My motivation for writing this summary was an interaction with a project owner that didn’t understand why […]
Finding Tagged Questions Faster: Answers & Discussion
Your query exercise was to take this Stack Overflow query to find the top-voted questions for any given […]
Gracefully Handle Errors using TRY CATCH Logic in SQL Server ...
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Install SSMS using Powershell DSC
Introduction In the previous article, we have seen how to install the SQL Server database engine using Powershell […]