Ingest and Retrieve data from an ADX Cluster Using Python
Learn how to query data in Azure Data Explorer using Python.
2024-05-06
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Articles
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 a packing technique from the shipping industry, to distribute different portions of a workload to run in parallel.
2024-05-06
Database Dashboards in Azure Data Studio
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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Managing Failed Pipeline Runs in Azure Data Factory
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
Metadata Driven Pipelines – Data Engineering with Fabric
This article explains metadata driven pipelines and shows an example in Microsoft Fabric.
2024-05-01
1,616 reads
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 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
Exporting and Importing Registered Servers in SSMS
This article shows how to import and export a list of registered servers from SSMS.
2024-04-29
885 reads
Learning Spark SQL String Functions with Explanations and Code Examples
Learn how to use different Spark SQL string functions to manipulate string data with explanations and code examples.
2024-04-29
What happens when we drop a column on a SQL Server table? Where's my space?
You have dropped a column and wondering why you haven't recovered any space? Let's take a look.
2024-04-26
2,245 reads
SQL Logic
In this article, I will discuss the history and thinking behind several types of logic that are typically associated with writing relational database code.
2024-04-26
Blogs
Attacking the Weakest Link
By Brian Kelley
When I look at a system and think about its security model, the first...
Webinar – Microsoft Fabric for Dummies
On Wednesday May 15th 2024 I will give a free webinar on MSSQLTips.com about...
Migrate datetime data to datetimeoffset with AT TIME ZONE
By Will Assaf
I recently reviewed, worked on, and added a similar example to the DATETIMEOFFSET Microsoft...
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Looking for a Recommended Azure SQL Managed Instance Book
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timeout in vs for ssas tabular deploy is 0 but i still timeout deploying
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Table variable declared within cursor persists across loop iterations
If you run this code it creates a 2 row cursor loop. Within the...
Question of the Day
The Backup File Extension
I run this command in SQL Server 2022. What is the extension of the backup file?
BACKUP DATABASE HerdofTwo TO DISK = 'HerdOfTwo_20240501'See possible answers