Converting a Datetime to UTC
I was in a need of converting some datetime values (of which I know the actual timezone) to UTC dates. A quick Google search showed me that most results...
2020-09-28 (first published: 2020-09-22)
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I was in a need of converting some datetime values (of which I know the actual timezone) to UTC dates. A quick Google search showed me that most results...
2020-09-28 (first published: 2020-09-22)
1,104 reads
I had a curious performance issue today. An inline table-valued function (iTVF) was performing poorly for some parameter sets, and quite fast for other parameter values. In short, this...
2020-09-24 (first published: 2020-09-17)
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I’m delighted to announce I’m speaking at the virtual SQLSaturday Denmark at the 26th of September 2020. I’ll be speaking about the cloud datawarehouse Snowflake and its integration with...
2020-09-09
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There’s been an update of the SSIS extension for Visual Studio 2019. There are some bug fixes and deployments are blocked to Azure-SSIS if the target server version is...
2020-09-10 (first published: 2020-09-02)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In today's data-driven world, SQL (Structured Query Language) is a blazing-hot skill. It's your...
By Steve Jones
I leave tonight for Australia. I was in London 3 days ago, so this...
By Brian Kelley
As I look at the state of information technology today, I see one constant:...
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Everybody (well almost) knows that if you want to learn the design patterns for...
How many table hints can I include in a query?
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