Happy New Year – Our Top Posts of 2019
With the New Year fast approaching and maybe already having arrived depending on where you are, we thought we’d do a quick recap of our top 5 posts from...
2019-12-31
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Blog Posts
Negative Port Numbers
Validating your server setup is an integral component of your duties as a SQL Server DBA. When performing those validations, it is possible to run into an intriguing difference...
2019-12-31
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Negative Port Numbers
Validating your server setup is an integral component of your duties as a SQL Server DBA. When performing those validations, it is possible to run into an intriguing difference...
2019-12-31
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Notifications in Azure Data Factory: Email, Internal Alerts, Log Analytics Alerts
(2019-Dec-15) While working on data integration projects and using Azure Data Factory as your main orchestration tool will help you to develop strategic forward thinking about your development tasks: to...
2019-12-31 (first published: 2019-12-16)
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Schema evolution solved using Delta Lake & Databricks
Don’t know about you, but one of my least favourite data pipeline errors is
the age-old failure caused by schema changes in the data source, especially
when these don’t...
2019-12-31 (first published: 2019-12-15)
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Get a List of Files with Data
The trick here is to find a way to search thousands of files quickly and filter easily the bad from the good. Sounds like an opportunity for an automation...
2019-12-30
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Last Week Reading (2019-12-29)
Hello boys & girls! This is the last post in “Last Week Reading” series in this decade. Can you believe that? Have you had a good Christmas time? Have...
2019-12-30
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Last Week Reading (2019-12-29)
Hello boys & girls! This is the last post in “Last Week Reading” series in this decade. Can you believe that? Have you had a good Christmas time? Have...
2019-12-30
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What happens if I disable the clustered index?
You are probably already aware that you can disable an index. This can be handy when you have a large ... Continue reading
2019-12-30 (first published: 2019-12-16)
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What is the Merit of the Job?
One tries to climb the ladder of success but at the cost of being an approachable human being. Nice people don't need to finish last.
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2019-12-30
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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