Speaking at DataMinds Connect 2020
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be speaking again at DataMinds Connect this year, one of the greatest and best Microsoft Data Platform conferences on the European mainland. Due to...
2020-08-04
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Koen Verbeeck
New Management Hub in Azure Data Factory
I wanted to manually start an Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime in ADF, so I went to the edit section and then to connections. But instead of showing me my linked...
2020-06-25 (first published: 2020-06-11)
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Speaking at GroupBy Conference – Spring 2020
I’m excited to announce I’ll be speaking at the virtual GroupBy conference this year. Thanks everyone who voted! I’ll be speaking at the European day on May 12th at...
2020-05-06
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 12: IS DISTINCT FROM
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....
2020-05-13 (first published: 2020-04-29)
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Vote for GroupBy Conference May 2020
GroupBy is a virtual conference, for the community and by the community. Content is focused on the Microsoft Data Platform. Speakers can submit sessions for two events: GroupBy Europe...
2020-04-14
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Switching between different Azure Data Factory environments
When working with Azure Data Factory, it’s possible you have multiple ADF environments. For example, you can have one for dev, one for test and one for production. Unfortunately,...
2020-04-21 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Reading a SharePoint List with Azure Logic App
Sometimes in life you have to do things you really don’t like to do. Such as extracting data from a SharePoint List. Usually I use SSIS and the OData...
2020-04-07
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Quickly Editing Data in SSMS
WARNING: do not do this in production. A quick blog post on a SSMS trick: how to quickly edit data. Sometimes you directly want to manipulate data without having...
2020-04-02
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SUMX returns incorrect results with duplicates
Okay, the title of this blog post could also have been “SUMX returns unexpected results with duplicates”. The results only seem incorrect because an incorrect assumption might have been...
2020-03-02 (first published: 2020-02-27)
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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....
2021-04-30 (first published: 2020-02-04)
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Blogs
Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)
By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
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Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers