Storing and Retrieving the Initialization and Configuration Data for Applications
All developers hit the problem of how and where to store and set their configuration, profile, or initial data. A long time ago, it was generally decided that simple text files containing key/values were best, stored with the application. After all, yo …
[Video] Office Hours Q&A: Abrupt Exit Edition
Last week, we had an abrupt intro, and this week, we have an abrupt ending when my camera overheats, hahaha: We went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 00:43 cha2rg: We have …
Microsoft Fabric and PySpark: Coding tricks to improve your solutions
PySpark has some unconventional syntaxes which provide power to the development process, making it easier. We talked about loops before. Let’s discover some more tricks to make our coding easier and more powerful. The Power of the pyspark REDUCE functi …
Geographic Sharding is Usually a Pretty Bad Idea.
Let’s say you built a web app and it became globally popular. You’ve got users scattered across North America, Europe, and Asia. In theory, you could shard your data globally: build 3 sets of SQL Servers, one on each continent, and split up …
I Must Be an Idiot: Automatic Tuning Never Works for Me.
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Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? September 2024 Edition
Is your company hiring for a database position as of September 2024? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must …
Solving the Overlap Query Problem in PostgreSQL
Range queries are a very common task in SQL: selecting dates, numbers, or even text values that fall within some specified range. For instance: all loan applications for the month of March, or all sales transactions between $50 and $500. SQL developers …
How to Slice Data by Fiscal Month using DAX for Power BI Reports
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Choosing Data Types and Column Options
An entire post on choosing the correct data types either seems like overkill or much needed and overdue. The perspective might vary based on the databases you’ve worked with recently. I decided to write this after seeing some code with data type decisi …
MySQL Index Overviews: Composite B-Tree Indexes
Indexes in MySQL are one of the primary ways to enhance query performance and they are especially useful when the primary use case of our project refers to reading data stored in a database. We‘ve already told you about the nuanced world of indexes in …
Microsoft Fabric: Using Lakehouse data in Real Time Dashboards
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Is it still worth it to sponsor PASS Summit?
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[Video] Office Hours: Abrupt Intro Edition
Today’s Office Hours had a ton of technical difficulties because it was my first live stream on both Twitch and TikTok. The first few minutes were cut off, and you can’t see the questions onscreen. Nonetheless, there are good answers in her …
The Big IT Outage: Where are we going?
As you all know about, just a few weeks ago we had the big CrowdStrike global IT outage. Some lucky IT guys like me had it in double: Microsoft was also suffered an outage in North Europe on the same week. I have worked in IT for more years than I can …
Query Exercise Answers: Solving the 201 Buckets Problem
In this week’s Query Exercise challenge, I explained SQL Server’s 201 buckets problem. SQL Server’s statistics only handle up to ~201 outliers, which means that outliers ~202-300 get wildly inaccurate estimates. In our example, I had …