In my previous post, I showed how to borrow a snake draft concept from fantasy football, or a packing technique from the shipping industry, to distribute different portions of a workload to run in parallel.
2024-05-06
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built on Visual Studio Code. I've written a few articles on how the tool works, and this one continues the series. In this article, I want to look at the database dashboards and how you can customize them. The other articles in this series on ADS works […]
2024-05-03
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In this article, we look at how to setup different ways to handle pipeline failures and notifications when working with Azure and Azure Data Factory.
2024-05-03
This article explains metadata driven pipelines and shows an example in Microsoft Fabric.
2024-05-01
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I recently had a restore job where I needed to split the work up into multiple parallel processes (which I’ll refer to here as “threads”). I wanted to balance the work so that the duration was something significantly less than the sum of the restore times
2024-05-01
This article shows how to import and export a list of registered servers from SSMS.
2024-04-29
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Learn how to use different Spark SQL string functions to manipulate string data with explanations and code examples.
2024-04-29
You have dropped a column and wondering why you haven't recovered any space? Let's take a look.
2024-04-26
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In this article, I will discuss the history and thinking behind several types of logic that are typically associated with writing relational database code.
2024-04-26
Sometimes when you do GROUP BY, the order of the columns does matter. For example, these two SELECT queries produce different results:
2024-04-24
A couple of weeks ago, a developer came to me and wanted to know...
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I want to use the ADD SENSITIVITY CLASSIFICATION DDL to mark some columns in my SQL Server 2022 database as PII. Can I use this code?
ADD SENSITIVITY CLASSIFICATION TO dbo.sales.price,
dbo.sales.discount
WITH (
LABEL = 'Highly Confidential',
INFORMATION_TYPE = 'Financial',
RANK = 'INTERNAL ONLY'
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