The Data Fabric – Future of Data Management
This article provides an overview of Data Fabric and its components.
2023-02-01
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Articles
Ingesting Data from Google Drive to Azure Data Lake Gen2 using Azure Data Factory
Learn how to setup, configure and ingest data from Google Drive using Azure Data Factory in this step-by-step article.
2023-02-01
Introducing the MySQL common table expression
As with many relational database management systems, MySQL provides a variety of methods for combining data in a data manipulation language (DML) statement. You can join multiple tables in a single query or add subqueries that pull data in from other tables.
2023-02-01
Backup Directly to a GCS Bucket in SQL Server 2022
Learn how you can back up your SQL Server 2022 databases to Google Cloud Storage.
2023-01-30
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Dealing with Mutually Dependent Databases in Flyway
How to create and manage 'stub' objects, in Flyway migrations, in order to overcome build failures caused by circular, or mutual, dependencies between objects in different databases. The technique should be applicable to any RDBMS.
2023-01-30
Encrypt SQL Server Stored Procedures to Protect Source Code
In this article, we cover how to encrypt a SQL Server stored procedure and how SQL Server hides the source code for these objects once encrypted.
2023-01-30
Publishing a Public Power BI Report from Google Sheets
Learn how you can share your Power BI report with others in the public. Steve shows how his data in Google Sheets is added to Power BI and then made public in a report.
2023-01-27
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Configure Contained Availability Groups for High Availability in SQL Server 2022
In this article, we look at how to setup and configure Contained Availability Groups in SQL Server 2022 and some of the new options this feature allows.
2023-01-27
Dealing with Cross-Server Database Dependencies in Flyway Projects
How to tackle database development in Flyway when databases make cross-server references. The technique uses synonyms to represent the remote objects, and local 'stub' objects to overcome the problems caused by 'missing references' when building the individual objects.
2023-01-27
Dynamic ELT with Azure Data Factory - Part 3 of 3
In part 3 of this series, see how you can use the principles from the series to build an Azure Data Factory pipeline.
2023-01-25
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Goal Progress for Jan 2023
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The grade for January is a D. Details below, but just not making a...
Context Info Across Databases–#SQLNewBlogger
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Does Context Info work across databases? This post shows it does. Another post for...
Introducing… Data On Rails!
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Data On Rails is a Data On Wheels project designed to give a platform...
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