The ROI of SQL Prompt
Find your personal ROI in under 1 minute. And see how many working days you and your team could save in coding time with SQL Prompt!
2024-12-20
Articles
Save the date for PASS Summit 2025!
PASS Data Community Summit will return to Seattle next year! Save the date for this incredible in-person event for global data professionals, which will take place at Summit, Seattle Convention Center, from November 17-21, 2025!
2024-12-18
Why a Self-Join Requires Halloween Protection
I was asked recently why Halloween Protection was needed for data modification statements that include a self-join of the target table. This gives me a chance to explain, while also covering some interesting product bug history from the SQL Server 7 and 2000 days.
2024-12-18
Feed SQL Server logs into SIEM
Keeping track of all the security related logs can be hard. Using your security team to shoulder some of the load can help. Learn how in this article.
2024-12-16
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Build a Streaming Data Architecture with Apache Kafka and Zookeeper
In this article, we look at how to use Apache Kafka and Zookeeper to process and load streaming data.
2024-12-16
Getting Started with the Data API Builder
Earlier this year I had a PM at Microsoft reach out and ask me what I thought about the Data API Builder. I hadn't looked at it, so I made a note to check it out. I hadn't done that by the time SQL Saturday Denver 2024 occurred, where I saw Jerry Nixon from Microsoft […]
2024-12-13
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Hiring and Motivating Technical Polyglots in Data Analytics
In this article, I will discuss hiring and motivating technical polyglots. A polyglot is a person who speaks multiple languages
2024-12-13
PASS Summit is going on tour in 2025!
Announced during Redgate's Keynote at PASS Summit in Seattle, PASS Summit On Tour will see smaller scale events hosted in New York, Dallas and the Netherlands in 2025. To be the first to know when tickets and dates are released, sign up to our mailing list.
2024-12-13
Virtualizing GCP data by using Fabric Shortcuts: Data Engineering with Fabric
In the next installment of this series, learn how you can read data from the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and virtualize it into your Azure Data Lake Storage.
2024-12-11
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Aggregate Functions in Power BI including Running Total, Running Average and Max
This article explains how to aggregate data for Power BI reports and provides examples of running totals, running averages, min, max, and more.
2024-12-11
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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