Certification on Orchestrating Big Data with Azure Data Factory
I took a break from blogging this week to finish the course for and get certified with Orchestrating Big Data...
2019-04-03 (first published: 2019-03-16)
1,105 reads
Marlon Ribunal - SQL, Code, Coffee, etc.
SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services: The Basics Part 5
We’re now on Part 5 of our SQL Server Reporting Services Basics Series. In this installment, we’ll learn how to...
2019-03-21 (first published: 2019-03-09)
3,414 reads
Transforming Data With Azure Data Factory Data Flow
Azure Data Factory (ADF) offers a convenient cloud-based platform for orchestrating data from and to on-premise, on-cloud, and hybrid sources...
2019-03-01
1,875 reads
Copy Data From On-Premise SQL Server To Azure Database Using Azure Data Factory
Let’s take a break from our SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services Basics Series and jump to Azure Data Factory (v2)....
2019-02-21
1,788 reads
SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services: The Basics Part 4
Note: I’ve been meaning to start a series on the basics of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The last time...
2019-02-16
373 reads
SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services: The Basics Part 3
Note: I’ve been meaning to start a series on the basics of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The last time...
2019-02-08
710 reads
SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services: The Basics Part 2
Note: I’ve been meaning to start a series on the basics of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The last time...
2019-02-22 (first published: 2019-02-01)
3,046 reads
SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services: The Basics Part 1
I’ve been meaning to start a series on the basics of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The last time I...
2019-02-13 (first published: 2019-01-25)
3,607 reads
Miscellaneous Notes On System Architecture and Design
When I first joined the programming team at my previous job in an aerospace company, the first observation I made...
2019-02-01 (first published: 2019-01-18)
2,097 reads
Book Review: SQL Server 2017 on Linux
I don’t have any statistics but I think most IT Professionals in the SQL Server field are managing or developing...
2019-01-11
458 reads
Blogs
Moving to Rancher Desktop
By Steve Jones
I’ve been very happy with Docker Desktop for years, running it on both laptop...
Logging in Azure Data Factory data flows
By Rayis Imayev
(2025-June-15) Long gone are the days when a data engineer could simply focus on building...
ADF: Publish suddenly includes everything where it used to be incremental changes since the last publish
By Ed Elliott
I recently encountered an interesting issue with ADF where the publish feature suddenly attempted...
Forums
disable remote access
If I configure remote access to 0 on my servers, am I right in...
Creating Maintenance plan to run annually
What is the best way to set the schedule of a maintenance plan or...
Crosstabs and Pre-Aggregations - Reporting on Steroids by Jeff Moden
The LA Data Platform User Group had a necessary speaker cancellation for the group...
Question of the Day
How Many Can Be the Greatest
I am trying to analyze a number of columns in a large table to determine the highest value for each row. In SQL Server 2022, we have the GREATEST function, which will return the greatest value from those columns passed in. How many columns can I include in an expression like this:
select GREATEST( col1, col2, col3, ...)See possible answers