What product to use to transform my data?
If you are building a big data solution in the cloud, you will likely be landing most of the source data into a data lake. And much of this...
2019-01-08
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James Serra's Blog
Azure Data Factory Data Flow
Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF) has a new feature in public preview called Data Flow. I have usually described ADF...
2018-12-17
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Azure Data Factory Data Flow
Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF) has a new feature in public preview called Data Flow. I have usually described ADF as an orchestration tool instead of an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL)...
2018-12-17
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Should I load structured data into my data lake?
With data lakes becoming very popular, a common question I have been hearing often from customers is, “Should I load...
2018-11-27
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Should I load structured data into my data lake?
With data lakes becoming very popular, a common question I have been hearing often from customers is, “Should I load structured/relational data into my data lake?”. I talked about...
2018-11-27
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Premium blob storage
As a follow-up to my blog Azure Archive Blob Storage, Microsoft has released another storage tier called Azure Premium Blob Storage...
2018-11-16 (first published: 2018-11-06)
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Premium blob storage
As a follow-up to my blog Azure Archive Blob Storage, Microsoft has released another storage tier called Azure Premium Blob Storage (announcement). It is in private preview in US East...
2018-11-06
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SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters
At the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2019 is now in preview and that SQL Server 2019 will include...
2018-10-22
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SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters
At the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2019 is now in preview and that SQL Server 2019 will include Apache Spark and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for...
2018-10-22
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Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
At Microsoft Ignite, one of the announcements was for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, which was made available in public preview October 1st,...
2018-10-26 (first published: 2018-10-16)
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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers