Disable Activity is Finally Available in Azure Data Factory!
Since I first used Azure Data Factory, I looked for the 'disable' option on an activity, and it wasn't there! I quickly went to the ideas...
2023-08-02
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Blog Posts
How do I tell if a user is orphaned or actually created without a login?
One of the wonderful things about blogging is the ability to make notes for future me. Which is basically what ... Continue reading
2023-08-02 (first published: 2023-07-18)
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Steps to Have a Service Principal Take Over a Dataset in Power BI When Using Data Gateways
A little background for those new to using Power BI and Data Gateways. If the data source for your Power BI dataset lives on-prem or behind a private endpoint,...
2023-08-02 (first published: 2023-07-17)
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I’m speaking at the Data Saturday Holland!
As you may have noticed, the agenda for Data Saturday Holland was recently published. I’m delighted to share that I will be conducting a full-day precon on October 7,...
2023-08-01
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T-SQL Tuesday #165: What Do All The Database Job Titles Actually Mean?
It’s an honor to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. In case you don’t know the rules already, here is a recap of them: Earlier this year, when I was...
2023-08-01
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A high level view of the most costly queries by CPU
A high level view of the most costly queries by CPU
I want to see at a high level i.e at batch or stored procedure level, not at the individual...
2023-07-31 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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Assigning a Default Schema to a New User–#SQLNewBlogger
I had to test something for a customer, and as a part of this there as a need to have a different default schema for a user. Since this...
2023-07-31 (first published: 2023-07-12)
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A New Word: Fitzcarraldo
fitzcaraldo – n. a random image that becomes lodged deep in your brain – maybe washed there by a dream, or smuggled inside a book, or planted during a...
2023-07-28
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Creating a Speaking Failures Support Group
Earlier this week the emails went out to speakers who submitted to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023 conference. These were acceptances and rejections, letting people know the results...
2023-07-28 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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The two hardest concepts of security are Who? and Where?
I was having a conversation with some friends the other day and Jen McCown (blog|twitter) asked about SQL Server security ... Continue reading
2023-07-28 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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data compare between 2 tables with same structure for any changes after etl run
i have huge table with lot of data and is also wide. i took...
Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document II
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams;See possible answers