T-SQL Tuesday #148–User Group Advice
This month the T-SQL Tuesday invitation is from Rie Merritt, and it’s one that means a lot to me. I don’t actually run a user group, but I think...
2022-03-08
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Blog Posts
ADX and KQL – Free Cluster for learning purposes
G’day, I’ve been looking around a bit lately at Azure Data Explorer (ADX) Clusters and the Kusto Query Language (KQL). I recently learned that Microsoft is letting people experience...
2022-03-07 (first published: 2022-03-06)
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Daily Coping 7 Mar 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-03-07
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Data Page Restrictions
Today I’m talking about limitations that you have with data pages, and why there are restrictions that you will love, while you will hate other restrictions. As you learned,...
2022-03-07 (first published: 2022-02-21)
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Extracting Data from the AFAS REST API with Azure Data Factory
AFAS is a Dutch business software company, proving companies with ERP and HR software-as-a-service. You can extract data from the service using a REST API (there are also SOAP...
2022-03-07
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Power BI Embedded: Stress Testing & Capacity Planning
When deciding if Power BI is the correct reporting platform to meet your business’s needs, price is a large factor. Power BI pricing models are based around SKU’s and...
2022-03-07 (first published: 2022-02-22)
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Daily Coping 3 Mar 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-03-04
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Daily Coping 4 Mar 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-03-04
32 reads
DP-900: What’s a Region and an Availability Zone
This is part of a series on my preparation for the DP-900 exam. This is the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals, part of a number of certification paths. You can...
2022-03-04 (first published: 2022-02-16)
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Introduction to Snowflake Data Platform
Snowflake is a columnar cloud native data platform for data warehouse and big data analytics. Snowflake provides massive scale and high-performance compute resource for data(more...)
The post Introduction to Snowflake...
2022-03-04
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
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Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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