A New Word:Wildred
wildred –adj. feeling the haunting solitude of extremely remote places – a clearing in the forest, a windswept field of snow, a rest area in the middle of nowhere...
2023-09-22
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Blog Posts
Deneb – powerful visual for advanced reporting
Introduction
For one of our customers we needed to create customized reports that could not be easily implemented by using standard Power BI components. We explored different ways how to...
2023-09-22 (first published: 2023-08-28)
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Friday Flyway Tips: Copying the Migration Number
It’s a small thing, but copying the migration number can be a pain. However, we’ve made this easier in Flyway 6.5.4. I’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for work...
2023-09-22 (first published: 2023-08-18)
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Friday Flyway Tips–Flyway Parameters
Flyway is a command line tool with lots of options and parameters. Working with those is a pain, but we’ve made this easier in Flyway Desktop 6.5+. In this...
2023-09-22
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Introduction to IaC: Deploying Data infrastructure to Azure using Terraform (Part 2 - our first Azure resource)
Continuing our Part 1, we already set up our environment, we can now setup our very first example (do not worry if is too simple at this point, but...
2023-09-20 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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Introduction to IaC: Deploying Data infrastructure to Azure using Terraform (Part 3 - Azure SQL Database)
In Part 1, we explain the basics and prerrequisites to work with Terraform.In Part 2, we created our first Azure resource.On this post we will create an Azure SQL...
2023-09-20 (first published: 2023-08-28)
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Are You Protected from Ransomware
There have been many organizations that have become victims of ransomware over the years. Occasionally we hear about some high-profile cases in the news. Most every case I’ve read...
2023-09-19
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Product Review: DataVeil
If you’re looking at data masking tools, I recently was able to review the DataVeil solution. Quite simply, getting production data out of non-production environments is still a big...
2023-09-19
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ADS Copilot Experiments with XML
I sent some code to a customer recently to help them decrypt some stored procedures. I sent a quick and dirty set of code, noting at the bottom that...
2023-09-18 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 1
In this series of articles I will be sharing the common mistakes in SQL Server. I am certain that this is going to be very interesting read, here is...
2023-09-18
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Blogs
Keeping Track of my ConEmu CLIs
By Steve Jones
I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home,...
10 Decisions to Make Before You Create A Fabric Workspace
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built...
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
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Adding new column with DEFAULT II
Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers