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Flyway and SSDT: Extracting a DACPAC from a Flyway-managed Database

When you are integrating Flyway into an existing SQL Server SSDT development, you don't necessarily have to change everything at once. The development team might continue to use the SSDT tools, but Flyway will soon take over the deployments. This means that any automated processes will need to be able to handle both DACPACs and Flyway migration scripts with equal grace. In this article, I'll demonstrate how to automatically extract a versioned DACPAC from each new Flyway version of a database.

2023-05-29

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Microsoft Build Announcements for Data Professionals

This week was Microsoft Build. After four years, it was back in person in Seattle and available online. I didn't attend in person, but I did watch a number of sessions and also went through the Build 2023 Book of News. You can download the book if you want, as it provides a lengthy list […]

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2023-05-26

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Retrieving MySQL data from within Python

The approach you take when accessing MySQL will depend on the programming language you’re using and the connector you choose for interfacing with the database. Whatever approach you take, the same basic principles generally apply to each environment. You must establish a connection to the database and then issue the commands necessary to retrieve or modify the data.

2023-05-24

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How to Generate Images with AI and Store them in SQL Server using Python and DALL·E

Introduction In this article, we will learn how to generate images with AI. This time we will work with DALL·E. DALL·E is an image generator using AI. You just need to provide a description and DALL·E will generate the image: In this article we will learn these topics: First, we will learn what is DALL·E […]

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2023-05-22

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BIT_COUNT() III

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:

select bit_count(-1)
What is returned?

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