Upcoming Free Webinars on Database Development and Operations
Fall is in swing, and it’s officially webinar season! Here’s a bunch of free events I’ve got on my calendar. Weekly Database DevOps Live Chats – a new experiment...
2019-11-19
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2019-11-16
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2019-11-16
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Links and Resources from “How to Architect Successful Database Changes”
Steve Jones and I had a great time today talking about source control for databases and release patterns for performance and availability in Seattle. We had a great group...
2019-11-06
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2019-11-06
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2019-11-06
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Project Management and Advocacy
I’ve observed few similarities between the Project Managers and Advocates. Being Project Manager, law bachelor and little practical experienced as an Advocate, I noticed few similarities. I think it’s...
2019-11-04
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Project Management and Advocacy
I’ve observed few similarities between the Project Managers and Advocates. Being Project Manager, law bachelor and little practical experienced as an Advocate, I noticed few similarities. I think it’s...
2019-11-04
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Does it matter ?
A series of articles that will talk about most important but least focused areas in Database Design and Development.
2019-10-31
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Does it matter ?
A series of articles that will talk about most important but least focused areas in Database Design and Development.
2019-10-31
4 reads
Blogs
Moving to Rancher Desktop
By Steve Jones
I’ve been very happy with Docker Desktop for years, running it on both laptop...
Logging in Azure Data Factory data flows
By Rayis Imayev
(2025-June-15) Long gone are the days when a data engineer could simply focus on building...
ADF: Publish suddenly includes everything where it used to be incremental changes since the last publish
By Ed Elliott
I recently encountered an interesting issue with ADF where the publish feature suddenly attempted...
Forums
How Many Can Be the Greatest
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How to process images and analyze charts with AI
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Patching the Patch
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Question of the Day
How Many Can Be the Greatest
I am trying to analyze a number of columns in a large table to determine the highest value for each row. In SQL Server 2022, we have the GREATEST function, which will return the greatest value from those columns passed in. How many columns can I include in an expression like this:
select GREATEST( col1, col2, col3, ...)See possible answers