What Every DBA Should Know about Always On Readable Secondaries
Learn a bit about the impact of readable secondaries, which you might not expect.
2024-02-23
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Articles
Redgate Summit: The Database Landscape
A series of Redgate events across the globe for data professionals who want to improve their skills and knowledge about Database DevOps, learn about moving to the Cloud, AI, and working across multiple databases. Redgate Summit aims to bring together database professionals who want to level-up their skills to navigate the increasingly complex database landscape. Learn more about emergent technologies, and reliably solve the complex challenges of database management across the entire DevOps lifecycle. Each event will all feature three separate tracks covering New and Future Technologies, Deep Dive Solutions, and Leadership, all promising to equip senior database professionals with the tools and insights needed to navigate the intricate landscape of 2024.
2024-02-23
Forget the Models, Your Data is the Secret Sauce for Generative AI
Generative AI holds immense potential for businesses, but its success depends on the quality of your data. High-quality, strategically managed data is essential for building trustworthy, unique, and competitive AI applications. This article explores how AI leverages your data through embeddings, outlines best practices for data management, and emphasizes the importance of responsible AI development. By prioritizing data quality and effective management, you'll position your business to reap the full benefits of Generative AI and drive innovation.
2024-02-21
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Dynamically Create Tables in Power BI with DAX Functions
Learn about DAX functions to use in Power BI ADDCOLUMNS, CROSSJOIN, VALUES, SUMMARIZE, GENERATE, CALENDAR, FILTER, TOPN, UNION, and NATURALINNERJOIN.
2024-02-21
An Introduction to Flowlets in Azure Data Factory
Learn how you can re-use parts of your pipeline in Azure Data Factory. Save off some tasks as a flowlet for use in multiple pipelines.
2024-02-19 (first published: 2022-04-15)
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Tutorial: Using the hierarchyid Data Type
This tutorial is intended for users who are experienced with Transact-SQL, but are new to the hierarchyid data type.
2024-02-19
JQ - Tool for Querying JSON documents using the CLI
Learn how you can query JSON data from a CLI to check it before importing the data into a database.
2024-02-16
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Query Exercise: Improving Cardinality Estimation
Your challenge for this week is to tune a query. Say Stack Overflow has a dashboard that shows the top-ranking users in their most popular location. It’s even got an index to support it
2024-02-16
Attention SQLBits 2024 Attendees!
Microsoft will be featured at SQL Bits with a keynote speaker, a full day of training and a few other sessions. Register today for the conference in March and we hope to see you there.
2024-02-14
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Scientific Calculations in Power BI - Cube, Square, Logarithms, Powers, Inverse and more
Microsoft Power BI Desktop provides users with multiple ways to help shape and transform their data. One of the options users have is scientific calculations, which support operations like cube, square, logarithms, etc. Power BI has this option in the Power Query Editor mode, where the user can easily apply one of these transformations for any number-based columns. In this tip, we will overview this utility in Power BI and how to benefit from it.
2024-02-14
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