It’s me again with my apparently semi-annual blog post. This time we’re going to talk about which version of SQL Server you should be on, now that we’re at...
2023-12-20 (first published: 2023-12-05)
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A couple of months ago where I work, a major product started undergoing a rebrand. I don’t pretend to understand marketing folks, but a change this big needed to...
2023-12-19
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📰 News What happened in the DAX world in 2022 New DAX functions… in 2022 The Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge Microsoft Ignite edition is back! How to build...
2023-12-18
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I’m seeing a lot of excitement from customers over Microsoft Fabric, now that it GA’d a few weeks ago. One thing that is generating a lot of that excitement...
2023-12-18 (first published: 2023-12-12)
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In SQL Server, the terms “set-based” and “row-based” refer to different approaches or styles of writing SQL code to manipulate data. These styles have implications for performance, readability, and...
2023-12-18 (first published: 2023-12-01)
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nementia – n. the post-distraction effort to recall the reason you’re feeling particularly anxious or angry or excited, trying to retrace your sequence of thoughts like a kid gathering...
2023-12-15
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I had a customer recently ask if SQL Compare could show them the differences in two scripts they’ve written. They weren’t using version control (tsk, tsk, shame), but saw...
2023-12-15 (first published: 2023-11-27)
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Today I have uploaded SQL Server Quickie #46 to YouTube. This time I’m talking about SQL Server on Linux.
2023-12-15 (first published: 2023-11-28)
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I’m saddened that the Workspace Summary is being deprecated in Log Analytics Workspace. I am trying to reproduce it in workbooks. While it isn’t an exact match, workbooks provide...
2023-12-13 (first published: 2023-11-29)
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I presented “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” at Cloudbrew and “How I saved 80% on my ADF costs” as a lightning talk at Data Meetup Groningen. Both slidedecks can be...
2023-12-13
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By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
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When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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