Building a Culture of Data: The Technical Aspects
In the first part of this two-part series, I covered the mostly non-technical aspects of building a […]
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Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in Power BI – Part 1
This article is part 1 of a retail analytics market-based analysis in Power BI. In part 1, we […]
[Video] Office Hours: Hong Kong Harbor
I recently went to Shanghai & Hong Kong, and stopped to take your questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento while sitting […]
Database Subsetting and Data Extraction
Let’s start by defining a subset and why you would require a data subset? When dealing with […]
Exploration Experience: Saving and Creating Datasets
I have been talking about Data Exploration in Power BI on many of my sessions, specially the […]
How to Have a Conversation About Software Licensing
As a consultant, I sometimes see SQL Servers with high CPU core counts relative to their workload. For […]
Full vs. Incremental Loads – Data Engineering with Fabric
The loading of data from a source system to target system has been well documented over the years. […]
Announcing Offline Access to Your BrentOzar.com Courses
So you’ve got an iPhone or iPad or Vision Pro, and you bought one of my training classes […]
Snake draft sorting in SQL Server, part 2
In my previous post, I showed how to borrow a snake draft concept from fantasy football, or […]
Finding Sister Locations to Help Each Other: Answers & Discussion
The post Finding Sister Locations to Help Each Other: Answers & Discussion appeared first on SQLServerCentral.
Disaster Recovery and High Availability Solutions in SQL Server
When managing a database, ensuring data availability and integrity is paramount, especially in the face of hardware failures, […]
Snake draft sorting in SQL Server, part 1
I recently had a restore job where I needed to split the work up into multiple parallel […]
Fabric and Azure SQL in a few clicks: Mirroring a ...
Finally, mirroring is available for Fabric! You can mirror an Azure SQL to Fabric. It works for […]
Breaking Down DENSE_RANK(): A Step-by-Step Guide for SQL Enthusiasts
Introduction to SQL Window Functions In today’s data-driven world, SQL (Structured Query Language) stands as a cornerstone for […]
[Video] Office Hours: Career & Data Q&A
A few career and security questions found their way into the queue at https://pollgab.com/room/brento for this episode: Here’s […]
How to Use Any SQL Database With Rust
Rust is emerging as a frontrunner for ensuring memory safety without sacrificing performance. Its growing popularity isn’t […]
Azure OpenAI and RAG Security
The most watched videos on my youtube channel are related to security. Azure SQL Networking Secrets and […]
Your Teammates Need the Fundamentals.
You’ve been reading my site for a while, watching videos, keeping up with the best SQL Server techniques. […]
SQL Server Plan Cache Bloat Performance Impacts
The post SQL Server Plan Cache Bloat Performance Impacts appeared first on SQLServerCentral.
Using ChatGPT for T-SQL Code Reviews
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, Pinal Dave asked us if AI has helped us with our SQL Server […]
Using Common Table Expressions: Transforming and Analyzing Data in PostgreSQL, ...
In the first article in this transforming data series, I discussed how powerful PostgreSQL can be in […]
Giving Feedback on Microsoft Data Platform Tools
As a data professional, there is a set of tools that you use on pretty much a […]
Joining Queries in Azure Data Factory on Cosmos DB Sources
This article illustrates how to join two queries using ADF (Azure data factory). Prerequisites First, prepare your data […]
SQL Server Patching Using PowerShell DSC
Introduction In the previous article we have seen how to install SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) using PowerShell […]
Introduction to Python including Installation, Jupyter Notebooks and Visual Studio ...
The post Introduction to Python including Installation, Jupyter Notebooks and Visual Studio Code appeared first on SQLServerCentral.
[Video] Office Hours: Just Three Questions
Sometimes y’all post questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento that require extended answers. Today, I’m hitting just 3 questions: Here’s what […]
Dynamic Partitioning and a Simple Incremental Load
Let’s consider a simple statement for partitioning and save a table in a lakehouse: df.write.mode(« overwrite »).format(« delta »).partitionBy(« Year », »Month », »Day »).save(« Tables/ » + table_name) […]
Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? April 2024 ...
Is your company hiring for a database position as of April 2024? Do you wanna work with the […]
Use Fabric Data Factory to Load Data From a CSV ...
The post Use Fabric Data Factory to Load Data From a CSV File in Azure Blob Storage to […]
Building MongoDB Aggregations in MongoDB Compass
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the […]
Announcing Fundamentals Week, May 6-10
You’ve attended some of my free online streams, read my blog posts, and you use the First Responder […]
Tomorrow’s the Big Day: Free Live Webcasts!
No fooling here. Tomorrow, I’m teaching my very favorite class live online, for free, two different ways – […]
Custom Statistics Distributions in SQL Server 2022
Statistics are important for the query processing engine in SQL Server to run efficiently. The type of execution […]
Choosing Between SSIS vs ADF: What You Need to Know
The post Choosing Between SSIS vs ADF: What You Need to Know appeared first on SQLServerCentral.
SQL Logic
In this article, I will discuss the history and thinking behind several types of logic that are […]
Check Azure SQL DB Space Used
A couple of days ago I was doing some cleaning on some Azure SQL DBs and shrinking some […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
Managing Files and Folders with Python – Data Engineering with ...
What is a data lake? It is just a bunch of files organized by folders. Keeping these files […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pagination and ordering by large values
Pagination is a technique for limiting output. Think of Google search results, shopping the electronics category on […]
Tinkering with Fabric Data Factory Framework Functionality
The post Tinkering with Fabric Data Factory Framework Functionality appeared first on SQLServerCentral.
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 […]
How to Optimize Power BI Semantic Model Performance with Vertipaq ...
The performance of a Power BI semantic model – formerly known as dataset – depends on a variety […]
[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 […]
Does Your GROUP BY Order Matter?
Sometimes when you do GROUP BY, the order of the columns does matter. For example, these two SELECT […]
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 […]
Free Live Webcasts: Slide & Demo Versions of How to ...
You’re comfortable writing queries to get the data you need. But you’re uncomfortable if someone asks you how it […]