Last Weeks Reading (2024-02-11)
📰 News Power BI Project (PBIP) and Azure DevOps build pipelines for continuous integration Integrating the PBIP format with Azure DevOps lets you use Azure Pipelines to automate CI/CD...
2024-02-11
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Blog Posts
Apache Spark from PHP - it is not just a .NET thing
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Goal of this post I wanted to explore what the Spark Connect API looked like from other languages, I am not a php developer - I...
2024-02-10
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Implementing functions and more fun in Spark Connect using gRPC and .NET
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Goal of this post The goal of this post is to look at creating a SparkSession and a DataFrame that will wrap the Range relation and...
2024-02-10
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A New Word: Wellium
wellium – n. an excuse you come up with to rationalize a disappointing outcome – telling yourself that you weren’t in the mood for that sold-out show anyway, that...
2024-02-09
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Friday Flyway Tips–Dark Mode
I saw a post that Flyway Desktop has a dark mode and I had to try it out. I’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for work more and more...
2024-02-09
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Moving SQL Prompt History to Another Machine
A customer was asking about SQL Prompt recently and how their history is stored and if it can be moved to another machine. This post shows how this works,...
2024-02-09 (first published: 2024-01-22)
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Search for queries with Query Store GUI
Hey folks, long time no write!
Today I want to bring a tip that I use every week but I found that most SSMS users are unaware it exists.
I can...
2024-02-09 (first published: 2024-01-29)
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My data architecture book is published!
I’m thrilled to share that after 15 months of dedicated effort, my book, “Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh,”...
2024-02-08
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How to Call REST API using VS Code
Sometimes you need a fast way to test your API call and responses, and for that VS code is the perfect tool to do that. For today’s demo, we...
2024-02-07 (first published: 2024-01-24)
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Your gradient fill bar charts in Power BI have poor color contrast, but you can fix them
Since conditional formatting was released for Power BI, I have seen countless examples of bar charts that have a gradient color fill. If you aren’t careful about the gradient...
2024-02-07 (first published: 2024-01-23)
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Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Advice I Like: Praise
By Steve Jones
Don’t reserve your kindest praise for a person until their eulogy. Tell them while...
Forums
Is there a way to have dynamic table headers?
Hi everyone I have a SP which compares two tables and outputs mismatching entries:...
Learning a New Language
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is there a way to "detect" schema like changes on a server?
Hi, we have a few people who like to experiment on our prod sql...
Question of the Day
Copying Production Schema
If I use DBCC CLONEDATABASE, can I remove some of the information from the copy?
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