Reading JSON Data with Python
Recently I’ve been looking at archiving some data at SQL Saturday. As a start, I needed to read some of the archive data I have in Python. This post...
2024-05-24 (first published: 2024-05-12)
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Blog Posts
AI World
this month is the big month and a month to remember their are so many announcements has been done in this month – May -2024 . As this is...
2024-05-23
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Bicep Your Elastic Jobs
I posted on Terraform and Azure SQL last year but wanted to see what Bicep could do this year. I’m going to test Bicep out with Elastic Jobs. TL;DR—My...
2024-05-22 (first published: 2024-05-02)
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Migrate datetime data to datetimeoffset with AT TIME ZONE
I recently reviewed, worked on, and added a similar example to the DATETIMEOFFSET Microsoft Learn Docs article at the recommendation of my colleague Randolph West, who guessed (accurately) I...
2024-05-22 (first published: 2024-05-03)
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Using Flyway with Feature Flags
There is a nice article at Harness.io on their use of feature flags and how they deployed their next generation experience. It’s worth a read if you want to...
2024-05-22
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6 Can’t-Miss Basic SQL Courses to Learn in 2024: Your Fast Track to Data Mastery
Ready to dive into the world of SQL? Whether you're dreaming of a lucrative data career or just want a new skill under your belt, learning SQL is a...
2024-05-21
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3rd Party Applications Have Issues
As a SQL DBA, what do you do when a vendor application has performance problems that are code related? Server settings don’t generally seem to be an issue. Queries...
2024-05-20 (first published: 2024-05-02)
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Data-driven vs. Data-informed: Let’s Acknowledge the Truth
This comic was retweeted into my timeline on Twitter (I refuse to call it X). Here’s the dialog from the comic, for those that don’t want to click through...
2024-05-20
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Get row counts of all tables in a Microsoft Fabric warehouse
I loaded some built-in sample data from Wide World Importers into a Fabric warehouse. You get an option to load sample data when you create a new pipeline in...
2024-05-20 (first published: 2024-05-02)
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A New Word: Flichtish
flichtish – adj. nervously aware how much of your self-image is based on untested assumptions about yourself – only ever guessing how you’d react to a violent thread, a...
2024-05-17
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Blogs
Future-Proofing: How to Stay Ahead in FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
Cloud environments don’t sit still. Pricing models change, services evolve, workloads grow, and suddenly...
Introducing the SQL Server on Kubernetes Operator
Are you considering replatforming your SQL Server workload due to recent vendor changes, but...
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
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