Do You Need a Relational Data Warehouse?

Are you looking to do a major update to your data warehouse or looking to modernize? Many technologies have come...

Finding Objects in a Schema #SQLNewblogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Getting error “unable to parse remote unpack status” when attempting to push to Azure Repo in Azure DevOps

This blog post is about a situation where I went to push my latest local changes to my git repository...

Help me present at GroupBy: review my abstract

I’ve submitted a session proposal to the free, online GroupBy conference. Voting will open for sessions soon, but before then, you can help me out by reading my abstract....

Overview of SQL UNION

This article will provide a deep dive into the SQL UNION operator, describing its many uses along with examples and...

Things To Know About SQL Saturday Charlotte #806

Did you know that SQL Saturday Charlotte is just a few weeks away on October 20, 2018?  This will be...

Using Microsoft Azure – Twitter Analysis

Time for a fun post, I have been working on a mini-project using technology from Microsoft Azure to hook into...

You can’t DELETE TOP (x) with an ORDER BY

Did you know you can’t do this?
DELETE TOP (10)
FROM SalesOrderDetail
ORDER BY SalesOrderID DESC;Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 8

Incorrect...

#Ignite2018 Session: Ensure application availability with cloud-based disaster recovery, Azure Site Recovery #SAP #BusinessContinuity

I’m a big fan of Azure Site Recovery for Disaster Recovery and was glad to attend the Ignite session today...

Azure Cognitive Services – Language APIs

In today’s post focusing on Azure Cognitive Analytics, I’ll look at the Language Analytics APIs that are available. These language...