General program for PASS Summit 2024 now available

Did you know that the general program for PASS Data Community Summit 2024 (November 4-8) was recently unveiled? This year's lineup includes over 150 different sessions being delivered by over 140 speakers!

This year's program also includes 16 incredible full day pre-cons, taking place on November 4 and 5, plus 6 different learning pathways to choose from. Join PASS Summit on-site for a whole week of connecting, sharing and learning with industry experts. Register before July 16 to secure a 3-day ticket at the early bird rate.

What does SQL NULL mean and how to handle NULL values

This tip will help you understand what NULL means and different ways to handle NULL values when working with SQL Server data.

How much Space can I expect to recover from a rebuild after dropping a column?

Check how much space you may expect to recover from a rebuild after dropping a column!

Choosing Between the Lakehouse and Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric is a new centralized, AI-powered cloud data platform hosted by Microsoft. It combines several services of the existing Azure Data Platform – such as Azure Data Factory – with Power BI, while also introducing new services.

Prevent Duplicate Records in SQL using Filtered Index

In this article, I share how an SQL Server filtered index solved the problem of preventing duplicates for new rows in a table.

Getting Your DBA Teams Scripts into Git

In this article, you will learn how a team can start to better manage the scripts they use for their daily work.

Concepts and Issues in Test Data Generation

Data generation is the science and art of providing data for database development work that is as realistic and controllable as possible. The skills of generating realistic data are an essential part of being a database developer. It is important: you need plenty of data of exactly the right type, size and verisimilitude

Set up a Windows Server Fail-over Clusters (As a Precursor to High Availability in Standard Edition)

Setting up High Availability in SQL server has some prerequisites. One of these is that the database servers must be members of the same Windows Server Failover Cluster. In this article I show how to succesfully set up WSFC and activate Cluster Aware Updating

Build Chatbot with Large Language Model (LLM) and Azure SQL Database

In this article, we look at how to enable a large language model (LLM) to answer questions based on data stored in Azure SQL Database.

Control OneLake with Storage Explorer – Data Engineering with Fabric

In this new article, we examine how to work with OneLake storage.