Ed Elliott

Ed is a Sql developer who has a mixed background in support, as a dba and as a developer working with a number of languages c, c#, vb, go, assembly with a variety of technologies and is currently trying to make the sql developer community a little bit more agile, one build step at a time!

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How do test the upstream data is good in an etl process (etl testing part 3)?

In the first two parts of this series (https://the.agilesql.club/2019/07/how-do-we-test-etl-pipelines-part-one-unit-tests/ and https://the.agilesql.club/2019/08/how-do-we-prove-our-etl-processes-are-correct-how-do-we-make-sure-upstream-changes-dont-break-our-processes-and-break-our-beautiful-data/), I talked about how to unit test your business logic and integration test your ETL infrastructure code. Having...

2019-09-30

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How do test the upstream data is good in an etl process (etl testing part 3)?

In the first two parts of this series (https://the.agilesql.club/2019/07/how-do-we-test-etl-pipelines-part-one-unit-tests/ and https://the.agilesql.club/2019/08/how-do-we-prove-our-etl-processes-are-correct-how-do-we-make-sure-upstream-changes-dont-break-our-processes-and-break-our-beautiful-data/), I talked about how to unit test your business logic and integration test your ETL infrastructure code. Having...

2019-09-30

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Question of the Day

Two Table Hints

What happens when I run this code:

SELECT
  p.ProductName
, p.ProductCategory
FROM dbo.Product AS p WITH (NOLOCK, TABLOCK);

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