Yesterday, some new views were made available in the Azure portal that will be helpful to those of us who create or manage Azure SQL resources. First, a new...
2019-09-03 (first published: 2019-08-22)
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I have a client who uses MDS (Master Data Services) and SSIS (Integration Services) in an Azure VM. Since we only need to execute the SQL Agent job that...
2019-08-27 (first published: 2019-08-15)
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Lately, I have been using SSIS execution frameworks and Biml created by other people to populate data marts and data warehouses. It has taught me a few things and...
2019-08-20 (first published: 2019-08-08)
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I wrote about the violin plot custom visual by Daniel Marsh-Patrick back in February. I thought it was a good visual then, but version 1.3 has recently been released...
2019-08-13 (first published: 2019-08-01)
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Every once in a while, I come across a data warehouse where the data load uses a full truncate and reload pattern to populate a fact or dimension. While...
2019-07-25
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Data classifications in Azure SQL DW entered public preview in March 2019. They allow you to label columns in your data warehouse with their information type and sensitivity level....
2019-06-18 (first published: 2019-05-30)
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Last week, I had a conversation on twitter about dealing with corporate color palettes that don’t work well for data visualization. Usually, this happens because corporate palettes are designed...
2019-06-03 (first published: 2019-05-16)
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There are many great resources out there for data visualization. Some of my favorite data viz people are Storytelling With Data (b|t), Alberto Cairo (b|t), and Andy Kirk (b|t)....
2019-04-23 (first published: 2019-04-11)
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The March 2019 release of Power BI Desktop has brought us keyboard accessible visual interactions. One of Power BI’s natural...
2019-04-10 (first published: 2019-03-21)
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When you start a Power BI project, you need to decide how and where you should store the data in your dataset. There are three “traditional” options: Imported Model:...
2019-03-28
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By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers