SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Spring 2024
The short story: SQL Server 2019 appears poised to swallow the SQL Server market altogether, hahaha.
2024-05-29
Articles
What is new in Copilot, the new features available
Learn how Daniel Calbimonte is using the AI in Bing to have some fun, write some code, and get help.
2024-05-27
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SQL Server Temporary Stored Procedures
Learn about creating stored procedures in the SQL Server tempdb database and why you might want to create temporary stored procedures.
2024-05-27
Takeaways from Data Grillen 2024
Two days of Data, Beer and Bratwurst. What did it bring me, find out by reading this photo-rich article.
2024-05-24
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How to Build Metadata Driven Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric
Over the past years, “traditional” ETL development has morphed into data engineering, which has a more disciplined software engineering approach. One of the benefits of having a more code-based approach in data pipelines is that it has become easier to build metadata driven pipelines.
2024-05-24
Empowering Lakehouse Users – Data Engineering with Fabric
Learn how to use the OneLake Explorer and Data Wrangler extension in VS Code to empower users to work with data in Microsoft Fabric.
2024-05-22
1,867 reads
Troubleshoot SQL Server Always On Availability Groups with SQL LogScout
We experienced several unplanned outages and failovers on our SQL Server Always On Availability Groups. We want to know the root cause to prevent them from happening in the future. How do we identify the root causes of unplanned Availability Group outages and failovers?
2024-05-22
How Big Data Supports Gen AI
This article includes an overview of how big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models work together.
2024-05-20
1,146 reads
Recursive CTEs: Transforming and Analyzing Data in PostgreSQL, Part 3
The first two articles in this series demonstrated how PostgreSQL is a capable tool for ELT – taking raw input and transforming it into usable data for querying and analyzing. We used sample data from the Advent of Code 2023 to demonstrate some of the ELT techniques in PostgreSQL.
2024-05-20
Managing SQL Agent in Azure Data Studio
This article continues my series on ADS and examines the SQL Agent extension.
2024-05-17
2,185 reads
Blogs
Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically...
Learning Tool – Deepstash
By Brian Kelley
A few months ago I started using Deepstash. Deepstash breaks books into the key...
New article – migrating from a named instance
By Brian Kelley
Do you have a case where you have a named instance you'd like to...
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The Data API Builder MCP Server Tools
The Data API Builder MCP Server, v2.x, includes a number of tools. What actions can these tools perform in your database?
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