Getting Started with Azure Data Factory - Part 1

Getting Started with Azure Data Factory - Part 1
DECEMBER 9, 2015

IntroductionThe Azure Data Factory is a means of moving data around in the cloud. In a similar way that...

Open Live Writer

I’m writing this post from the Open Live Writer project software. I’ve used Live Writer for years, but it’s shown...

PASS Board Update: First Year

This represents my 12th month on the board so I thought I would recap my time there so you know...

Running Powershell with Task Scheduler

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as#SQLNewBloggers.
One...

Sentiment Analysis with Power BI

I was recently asked by a customer to help them do some Text analysis of course evaluation data. They wanted...

T-SQL Tuesday #73 – Naughty or Nice?

Thank you to SQLBalls ( b | t ) for hosting this month’s #tsql2sday.
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Apathy – A quick path to the naughty list.

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Data Compression

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Querying the Plan Cache

I love working with indexes, and I need to know what’s using them to work on them intelligently. Most of...

SQL SERVER – Random function in Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server 2016 CTP 3

Hi friends, With new CTP version of SQL Server 2016 many new functionality are added and modified. As with introduction...