Passing status messages and results back from Databricks to ADF
When we use ADF to call Databricks we can pass parameters, nice. When we finish running the Databricks notebook we often want to return something back to ADF so...
2020-02-05
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Blog Posts
Passing status messages and results back from Databricks to ADF
When we use ADF to call Databricks we can pass parameters, nice. When we finish running the Databricks notebook we often want to return something back to ADF so...
2020-02-05
53 reads
Protect Your Prod Databases in Azure DevOps / TFS: Three Control Points
When implementing any kind of automation for database deployments, it’s important to implement safeguards for your production environment. This is needed even in the best conditions when team members...
2020-02-05
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Allow users to start/stop Azure VMs
Today I wanted to cover how you can grant the least privilege required to stop, start or restart an Azure VM. This is also a fun great example of...
2020-02-04
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ANSI_WARNINGS = OFF can break update statements with some SQL features
Working on a SQL 2017 database where an external, non-Microsoft application has direct access to read/write data via the ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server.
They suddenly began to experience...
2020-02-04 (first published: 2020-01-24)
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Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) in Azure Data Factory using DevOps and GitHub - Part 2
(2020-Jan-28) This blog post is a followup to my previous post about DevOps (CI/CD) for Azure Data Factory - Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) in Azure Data Factory using DevOps and...
2020-02-04 (first published: 2020-01-28)
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 11: RESULT_SCAN
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2020-02-04
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Demystifying STUFF() function
This article will talk about myth with Stuff() function that it can be only used for concatenation. We'll do the reality check to demystify the Stuff() function.
2020-02-04
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Installing and Configuring the Undercover Catalogue
Quick video showing you how to install and configure the SQL Undercover Catalogue
2020-02-04
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Introduction to StudyYourServer
I made a video (in Spanish) on how to use and which features offer my open-source project StudyYourServer
You are free to collaborate, fix it and add new functionalities!
The...
2020-02-04
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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