Weekly reading #27
September is over. This was not a good month for us. We had to cancel the conferences planned for September and were not able to write as much as...
2019-10-01
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Blog Posts
Why Does Everyone Have More Friends Than You?
No, the answer isn’t because you’re a DBA. This isn’t a technical post about databases, but rather a discussion of a statistical paradox that I read about recently. Statistics...
2019-10-01
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DBA Myths: CHECKDB runs on startup.
If you look at your error log you’ll (hopefully) see entries like this shortly after the instance startup: CHECKDB for ... Continue reading
2019-09-30 (first published: 2019-09-16)
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Download Power BI Audit Logs with the New Get-PowerBIActivityEvent cmdlet
Earlier this week a new version of the MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt module was made available on the PowerShell Gallery. Two new cmdlets were included in the module Remove-PowerBIReport and Get-PowerBIActivityEvent. The...
2019-09-30
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Download Power BI Audit Logs with the New Get-PowerBIActivityEvent cmdlet
Earlier this week a new version of the MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt module was made available on the PowerShell Gallery. Two new cmdlets were included in the module Remove-PowerBIReport and Get-PowerBIActivityEvent. The...
2019-09-30
339 reads
How do test the upstream data is good in an etl process (etl testing part 3)?
In the first two parts of this series (https://the.agilesql.club/2019/07/how-do-we-test-etl-pipelines-part-one-unit-tests/ and https://the.agilesql.club/2019/08/how-do-we-prove-our-etl-processes-are-correct-how-do-we-make-sure-upstream-changes-dont-break-our-processes-and-break-our-beautiful-data/), I talked about how to unit test your business logic and integration test your ETL infrastructure code. Having...
2019-09-30
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How do test the upstream data is good in an etl process (etl testing part 3)?
In the first two parts of this series (https://the.agilesql.club/2019/07/how-do-we-test-etl-pipelines-part-one-unit-tests/ and https://the.agilesql.club/2019/08/how-do-we-prove-our-etl-processes-are-correct-how-do-we-make-sure-upstream-changes-dont-break-our-processes-and-break-our-beautiful-data/), I talked about how to unit test your business logic and integration test your ETL infrastructure code. Having...
2019-09-30
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Restoring Backups from Azure Blob with dbatools
Recently I needed to write a PowerShell script that could build a backup set from a collection of backups stored in Azure Blob Storage without any backup history available...
2019-09-30 (first published: 2019-09-15)
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2019-09-30
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Speaking on New SQL Server Performance Tuning Techniques – SQL User Group
Prakash will talk about some of the coolest new features of SQL Server for performance tuning which you can use to quickly troubleshoot & improve performance.
2019-09-30
158 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Forums
Alamat Kantor BCA KCP Alaydrus Telp:08218520153
WhatsApp CS 628218520153 Jl. Alaydrus No.47 & 47 A, RT.8/RW.2, Petojo Utara, Kecamatan Gambir,...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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