Hiring in IT and Relevance of Domain Experience
When choosing to hire someone, do you want experience or freshness? A few thoughts from someone that had to go through this recently.
2024-08-12
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Articles
Introducing the pre-con schedule for PASS Summit 2024
The speakers and sessions have just been announced for PASS 2024! We’re delighted to share the pre-con schedule for Monday, November 4, and Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Check out the full pre-con line up and the incredible speakers taking part and secure your spot today.
2024-08-12
Microsoft Fabric: Moving Dataflows Gen 2 to different workspaces
Let’s see the steps needed to move a dataflow from one workspace to another. For a matter of example, let’s consider the dataflow access a lakehouse on the Dev environment. When copied to the Test environment, the new copy needs to be linked to a new dataflow in the Test environment.
2024-08-12
Creating a Comma-Separated List (SQL Spackle)
Learn how to create a comma separated list of values in this short SQL Spackle article by Wayne Sheffield.
2024-08-09 (first published: 2011-01-12)
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Express a Number or Currency in Words with T-SQL Code
This SQL script allows you to take a number and convert the number to words, and convert a currency value into words.
2024-08-09
Simple Talks podcast episode 2: Coffee chat with Huxley Kendell
Host Louis Davidson meets with Solutions Engineer Huxley Kendell, to chat about his experience in working in the tech industry. Listen in to this episode for discussions including LLMs and AI, Coding and Career paths, all the way to Dungeons and Dragons.
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Choosing a File Format - Data Engineering with Fabric
In this next article, learn about the different file formats and which work well inside your Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse.
2024-08-07
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Auditing SQL Server – Part 2 – Hardware Audit
This is the second part of my series on auditing SQL Server. In the first part, I discussed basic server discovery and documentation. It covered some items to check at the hardware level and configuration items, but this section gets into more detailed hardware auditing details.
2024-08-07
The full agenda for the Redgate Summit New York is live!
The full agenda for the Redgate Summit New York is live! Join us to stay ahead of the curve and gain valuable insights from industry experts like Bob Ward (Microsoft), Mri Pandit (Navy Federal Credit Union), Erik Darling (Darling Data), Steve Jones (Redgate Software), and many more.
2024-08-07
Git, GitHub and Visual Studio Code for SQL Server
Learn how to get started with Git and Visual Studio Code.
2024-08-05
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198–Change Detection
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document IV
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT YearEstablished, json_objectagg(city : TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams GROUP BY YearEstablished;See possible answers