Are you doing the things at work that your boss cares about or the things you care about? Steve has a few thoughts on this.

How to Load a Fabric Warehouse: Data Engineering with Fabric

by John Miner

SQLServerCentral

Microsoft Fabric (Azure Synapse, Data Engineering, etc.)

In this next level, learn how you can load data from Amazon S3 in Fabric.

SQL Server OPTION RECOMPILE for Simple Queries

by Additional Articles

MSSQLTips.com

Learn about SQL Server OPTION RECOMPILE and if used on simple, frequently executed queries if it causes excessive CPU usage.

The Change Failure Rate

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

The number of times that you have a failure when deploying changes is a good metric to watch.

Why Tools Can Help You Do Your Job

by Kathi Kellenberger

SQLServerCentral

This editorial was originally published on May 18, 2019. It is being re-run as Steve is on holiday. Back in my days as a SQL server DBA, I didn't have many third-party tools at my disposal. I remember having a monitoring tool with licenses for only three or four SQL server instances. Whenever there was […]

The Rise of Data Centers

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

There is still a huge demand for data centers, both from cloud vendors and private enterprises.

Why you should avoid Implicit Measures in your Power BI model

by Koen Verbeeck

SQLServerCentral

Power BI

Learn about the differences and challenges with implicit and explicit measures in Power BI.

Data Documents and Common Sense

by Additional Articles

SimpleTalk

Design and Theory

What can be so difficult in creating a sensible standard for Structured Data Documents? To understand why they tend to get improved into unusable complexity, I’ll need to explain a bit of background.