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.
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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.
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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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Azure Function and User Assigned Managed Identities
Let’s talk about authentication between Azure Functions and resources used by Azure Functions and conclude with many poorly documented secrets about how to use User Assigned Managed Identity.
2023-01-25
DevOps Process Improvement Course
However chaotic or predictable your DevOps processes currently are, the new video learning pathway from the Redgate University will help you prioritize what to improve first, provide step-by-step guidance on how to implement those improvements, and show you ways to measure them.
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How to Import Data in Power BI Using R
This article shows how you can use an R script to import data into Power BI.
2023-01-23
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A Version Control Strategy for Database DevOps
This article explains step one: migrating our monolithic, centralized repos to Git, then implementing a Release Flow branching strategy for parallel development work streams, and a Pull Request workflow to control an automated build and release process.
2023-01-23
SQL Server Function Examples with JSON Files
This tip drills down on how to process JSON files with SQL Server and demonstrates an approach for extracting key values from JSON nested key-value pairs.
2023-01-23
Verifying Trees
In this article, Glen Cooper provides code that allows you to process a tree, or undirected graph of data. Lots of hierarchies fall into this category and the ability to process them is valuable in many reporting situations.
2023-01-20
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Question of the Day
Using OPENJSON
I have some data in a table that looks like this:
BeerID BeerName brewer beerdescription 1 Becks Interbrew Beck's is a German-style pilsner beer 2 Fat Tire New Belgium Toasty malt, gentle sweetness, flash of fresh hop bitterness. 3 Mac n Jacks Mac & Jack's Brewery This beer erupts with a floral, hoppy taste 4 Alaskan Amber Alaskan Brewing Alaskan Brewing Amber Ale is an "alt" style beer 8 Kirin Kirin Brewing Kirin Ichiban is a Lager-type beerIf I run this, what is returned?
select t1.[key]
from openjson((select t.* FROM Beer AS t for json path)) t1 See possible answers