Introduction In this article, we will see how to work with GitHub Copilot. GitHub copilot is an interesting plug-in that generates code using AI. The technology is from Microsoft and OpenAI. We will show how to install Copilot, and how to generate SQL Server code (T-SQL) using Copilot. First, we will answer some FAQs about Copilot […]
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With Flyway, you can adopt a test-driven development strategy that will allow you to test and evaluate databases, and database objects, at every phase of the database development lifecycle. The further down the delivery pipeline that bugs appear, the more costly in time and resources they are to fix. This approach will allow you to catch many of them before the database change even gets committed to version control, making a continuous delivery process much easier to adopt and sustain.
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This article covers the basics of how different AI tools can be used to write SQL.
2024-02-09 (first published: 2024-01-19)
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This article shows how a table variable can be used to capture error information and log it when your code doesn't work as expected.
2024-02-09
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Have you ever been in a situation that you want to call a cmdlet or a function with a parameter that depends on a conditional criteria that is available as a list? In this article I will show a technique where you can use PowerShell Dynamic Parameters to assist the user with parameter values.
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Learn how to get started with a few sample prompt templates by using the gpt-4 LLM within OpenAI and LangChain in a Databricks notebook.
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Learn how you can model days in a dimension that might need to be aggregated in different ways for your data warehouse operations.
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If we’ve gotta take the database down for maintenance – perhaps a version upgrade, perhaps upgrading our own code, maybe scaling up the hardware – when’s the best time to do it?
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Read a message from Bob Ward about the first Microsoft Fabric conference taking place in Las Vegas this March.
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This article will help you to resolve the Livy session error in an Azure Synapse notebook.
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In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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