Finding Foreign Keys in Azure SQL DB
There are plenty of times I’m called upon to fix data. To do this, I must know what dependencies are in the database. Foreign keys are a crucial aspect...
2024-01-17 (first published: 2024-01-02)
177 reads
Blog Posts
New Pluralsight Course - Certified Kubernetes Administrator - Kubernetes Foundations
We’re kicking off a major refresh of my Certified Kubernetes Administrator series at Pluralsight!
The first course “Certified Kubernetes Administrator: Kubernetes Foundations” in the updated series is now available on...
2024-01-17
208 reads
Spark Connect Dotnet First Major Milestone
All Spark Connect Posts
When I wrote the spark-connect-dotnet lib I didn’t envisage that I would implement every function, instead it would be a combination of implementing the most common...
2024-01-17
7 reads
Power BI Embedding: Essential Learning Resources
Introduction
In this blog, you will find valuable resources to help you better understand the Power BI Embedding feature. Whether you are looking for ways to integrate Power BI into...
2024-01-15 (first published: 2024-01-03)
437 reads
Updating Teslamate to the Latest Version
I noticed Teslamate wasn’t updated. In fact, I hadn’t had any data captured in nearly a month and I’ve been too busy to notice. I was concerned something had...
2024-01-15
199 reads
A New Word: Candling
candling – v. intr. the habit of taking stock of your life on the occasion of your birthday, letting it serve as a kind of internal referendum on all...
2024-01-12
27 reads
Baby Steps and Continuous Improvement
It’s the last Friday of the year and I’ve been struggling to think of a good way to close things ... Continue reading
2024-01-12 (first published: 2023-12-29)
321 reads
Why you should consider Power BI Cleaner
Introduction
You have probably created various auxiliary tables, columns or metrics during report development. Before the final deployment of the report into production, it is necessary to delete these auxiliary...
2024-01-12 (first published: 2024-01-02)
801 reads
Build a Terraform Module for Azure SQL
Building a Terraform module for Azure SQL DB is like packaging your infrastructure magic into a reusable box. It’s the kind of thing that makes your IT life smoother....
2024-01-10 (first published: 2023-12-29)
345 reads
Update Azure SQL database and storage account public endpoint firewalls with Data Factory IP ranges
While a private endpoint and vNets are preferred, sometimes we need to configure Azure SQL Database or Azure Storage to allow use of public endpoints. In that case, an...
2024-01-10 (first published: 2024-01-02)
437 reads
Blogs
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
By Steve Jones
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...
Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?
By Arun Sirpal
For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...
Forums
A question about how to store the address in the database
I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...
SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component
Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...
Question of the Day
Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
See possible answers