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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Koen Verbeeck
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
1,201 reads
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
53 reads
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)
485 reads
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)
495 reads
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
50 reads
Author of the Year 2019 Nomination at MSSQLTips
This year I’ve been nominated again for the Author of the Year award at MSSQLTips. A lot of other fine people have been nominated as well, you can check...
2020-01-27 (first published: 2020-01-21)
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Author of the Year 2019 Nomination at MSSQLTips
This year I’ve been nominated again for the Author of the Year award at MSSQLTips. A lot of other fine people have been nominated as well, you can check...
2020-01-21
7 reads
Cloudbrew 2019 – Slides
Cloudbrew 2019 is over and it was a great event. Great speakers and a big audience. Even in my session there were a lot of attendees, which I found...
2019-12-19
21 reads
Blogs
Stop Using Pandas for Aggregations — Try DuckDB Instead
If you've ever loaded a 2 GB CSV into pandas just to run a...
Understanding Fabric Ontology
By James Serra
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
Forums
Stairway to Reliable Database Deployment Level 3 – Rehearsing Changesets Across Environments
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
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Limit the Blast Radius
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Question of the Day
QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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