Why use Tally Tables in the Fabric Warehouse? Data Engineering in Fabric
This next article in the Data Engineering with Fabric series showcases how tally tables can help load data in a Fabric warehouse.
2025-02-26
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Articles
Engineering a Lakehouse with Azure Databricks with Spark Dataframes
How can we get familiar with Azure Databricks with Spark Dataframes?
2025-02-26
How to use the Azure Emulator to create blob containers, queues and tables
Learn how to emulate Azure storage for files, blogs, and queues.
2025-02-24
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What If You Need to Index a Lot of Duplicate Data?
Let’s get a little nerdy and look at database internals.
2025-02-24
Configuring Maintenance Plans in SQL Server
See a walkthrough of setting up a maintenance plan in SQL Server.
2025-02-21
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Upgrade and Migrate SSIS Catalog and SSISDB to a New Server
There will come as time when you need to upgrade the host operating system and SQL Server to a newer version. If you are using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), one of the things you may need to do is to move the SSIS catalog (SSISDB database) to the new server. We will cover the steps in this tutorial to migrate the SSISDB from one server to another.
2025-02-21
How to Resolve SQL Server Database Stuck in Recovery Pending State
Learn how to recover a database from a missing or corrupt transaction log file.
2025-02-19
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Index Rebuilds Make Even Less Sense with ADR & RCSI
Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) is a database-level feature that makes transaction rollbacks nearly instantaneous. Here’s how it works.
2025-02-19
Find Text in Stored Procedure, Function, View, or Trigger
How can I accurately find which SQL Server Stored Procedures, Views or Functions are using a specific text string, which can be a table name or any string that is part of the code?
2025-02-17
Implementing Vector Datatype with Azure SQL Server
This article shows how to insert data into a database, create embeddings, and then use this data to search the data with a natural language interface.
2025-02-14
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Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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