Moving from SQL to MongoDB’s MQL
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the items in the series, click here. People new to MongoDB often come to the platform with a background in relational database management systems (RDBMSs) such as MyS …
Power BI Mistakes to Avoid – Part 2
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Sentiment Analysis & Key Phrase Detection
Recently I worked on a neat little POC with Patrick Leblanc for a customer in Education who wished to perform sentiment analysis and key phrase extraction on surveys completed by students regarding classes and instructors, which brings me to this blog …
Using Parameters with DAX in Report Builder
This is something we expect to be simple, but it has a lot of secrets. Using parameters in DAX queries is essential, as any other query: The parameter transfers the filtering to the server side instead of the report side and optimize the report perform …
Running a MySQL database in a Docker Container
Relational databases provide a structured approach for storing and organizing large volumes of data into tables consisting of rows for records, and columns for attributes. They use primary keys which are unique identifiers for records and foreign keys, …
[Video] Office Hours: Recovering from a Cold Edition
While recovering from a nasty cold, I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Start 03:13 Haruki Tanaka: Hi Brent, The stored procedure has 12 parameters, and users pass various combinations of …
Review: SSMS Copilot vs Other AI Tools
I use AI tools constantly in my work, so when the new SSMS v21 came out with Copilot support, I was excited to try it. The short story is that the user interface is fine, and it doesn’t feel buggy, but the advice is simply terrible compared to other LL …
Our Anniversary Sale Ends This Week!
Back in May 2001 when I first registered BrentOzar.com, I never would have dreamed how things would go. I couldn’t have imagined that decades later, the site would be home to: Over 3,500 blog posts with over 10,000 comments About 1,000 pages of content …
DISTINCT and UNION: What happens when you use them together?
When I was perusing my LinkedIn feed the other day, I came across this thread about using SELECT *. In one of the replies, Aaron Cutshall noted that: “Another real performance killer is SELECT DISTINCT especially when combined with UNION. I have a whol …
Free Webcast Tomorrow: Mastering Server Tuning
This is it: the very peak of my free SQL Server Spring Training webcast series. I’ve been teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free this spring, and now it’s time for the Mastering classes. Tomorrow I’m covering Mastering Server Tuning …
Top 5 Power BI Common Pitfalls
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Introduction to GitHub Actions Part 2: GitHub-hosted runners
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Data Encoding Schemes
You probably noticed that when you get a bill or bank statement, it uses the current modern Western version of Hindu-Arabic numerals. Yet during the early days of the Renaissance, the accounting firms in Italy often boasted that they kept their records …
How SQL Server 2025’s Optional Parameter Plan Optimization Works
About three years ago, SQL Server 2022 introduced Parameter-Sensitive Plan Optimization (PSPO). At the time, I explained that it didn’t work particularly well, and went so far as to pronounce PSPO in a rather unflattering way. I wouldn’t suggest that a …
SQL Server Developer Standard Edition: A Gift to Developers!
This article is part of a series of posts on the forthcoming SQL Server 2025 release. Once 2025 has been released, posts will be kept if the feature hasn’t changed for the final release. For other posts in this series, you can find them in this collect …