SQL Server Filtered Index Essentials Guide
Learn about using filtered indexes for SQL Server tables and some of the potential issues you might be faced with when using a filtered index.
2024-05-08
Learn about using filtered indexes for SQL Server tables and some of the potential issues you might be faced with when using a filtered index.
2024-05-08
Learn how to query data in Azure Data Explorer using Python.
2024-05-06
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In my previous post, I showed how to borrow a snake draft concept from fantasy football, or a packing technique from the shipping industry, to distribute different portions of a workload to run in parallel.
2024-05-06
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built on Visual Studio Code. I've written a few articles on how the tool works, and this one continues the series. In this article, I want to look at the database dashboards and how you can customize them. The other articles in this series on ADS works […]
2024-05-03
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In this article, we look at how to setup different ways to handle pipeline failures and notifications when working with Azure and Azure Data Factory.
2024-05-03
This article explains metadata driven pipelines and shows an example in Microsoft Fabric.
2024-05-01
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I recently had a restore job where I needed to split the work up into multiple parallel processes (which I’ll refer to here as “threads”). I wanted to balance the work so that the duration was something significantly less than the sum of the restore times
2024-05-01
This article shows how to import and export a list of registered servers from SSMS.
2024-04-29
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Learn how to use different Spark SQL string functions to manipulate string data with explanations and code examples.
2024-04-29
You have dropped a column and wondering why you haven't recovered any space? Let's take a look.
2024-04-26
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Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers