T-SQL Tuesday #170 – Learning from Failure
So what did I learn? I think a better question is, "What did I re-learn?"
2024-01-26 (first published: 2024-01-09)
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Blog Posts
A temper, soft skills, and almost losing a job : T-SQL Tuesday #170
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again! In fact, it’s the first of the year and our intrepid host is Reitse Eskens (blog|twitter). ... Continue reading
2024-01-24 (first published: 2024-01-09)
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Consolidating Cloud Backups
I am a big fan of the cloud. While I appreciate local storage and privacy/control/security, etc., that stuff can also go away locally. Plus, I like the convenience, and...
2024-01-24
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Switching between different active physical relationships in a Power BI model
A couple of weeks ago, I encountered a DAX question that I had not previously considered. They had a situation where there were two paths between two tables: on...
2024-01-24 (first published: 2024-01-09)
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Using Spark Connect from .NET to run Spark jobs on Databricks
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Goal of this post This post aims to show how we can create a .NET application, deploy it to Databricks, and then run a Databricks job...
2024-01-24 (first published: 2024-01-23)
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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...
2024-01-23
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Common Data Mesh exceptions
When it comes to data meshes that have been constructed or are currently under development, I have not observed any instances where the four core data mesh principles have...
2024-01-22 (first published: 2024-01-04)
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Using AI to create test data
Have you ever been tasked with creating test data for an application and then ran into performance problems once the application moves to production? Many of us manage databases...
2024-01-22 (first published: 2024-01-08)
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A New Word: Altschemerz
altschmerz – n. a sense of weariness with the same old problems that you’ve always had, the same boring issues and anxieties you’ve been gnawing on for decades, which...
2024-01-19
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Building a Docker image from a Github repository
To build a custom Docker image we create a docker file with instructions in it. For example, a really simple custom SQL Server 2019 Docker image can be built...
2024-01-19 (first published: 2024-01-05)
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Data Viz in Fabric Notebooks
Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore...
App-Consistent MongoDB Snapshots Across Multiple Pure Storage FlashArrays
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
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Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers