Exploring Time Travel and Row Level Concurrency: Data Engineering with Fabric
Learn how updates and concurrency can work in Fabric with Delta Parquet data.
2024-10-02
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Learn how updates and concurrency can work in Fabric with Delta Parquet data.
2024-10-02
1,326 reads
Back by popular demand, casino night from SQL Server Central will return to PASS Summit this year. Casino night will take place on November 5 after the welcome reception. Tickets will be allocated at random via a lottery.
2024-10-02
PySpark has some unconventional syntaxes which provide power to the development process, making it easier.
2024-10-02
This article looks at the old style of calculating a running total and how to convert that to code that uses a window function.
2024-09-30
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This tip covers the differences and similarities between SQL Server index rebuild and index reorganize operations.
2024-09-30
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built...
2024-09-27
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Many years ago, my wife and I wrote an article for Datamation, a major trade publication at the time, under the title, “Don’t Warehouse Dirty Data!” It’s been referenced quite a few times over the decades but is nowhere to be found using Google these days. The point is, if you have written a report using data, you have no doubt felt the pain of dirty data and it is nothing new.
2024-09-27
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2024-09-27
This article explores how raising the Cost Threshold for Parallelism (CTFP) affects missing index recommendations in SQL Server along with examples.
2024-09-25
Learn a step-by-step method to save your ADF pipelines in Git and automatically release new changes to test and production.
2024-09-23 (first published: 2023-10-16)
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By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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