Counting cars with Azure’s Computer Vision service
When I was 11 I got my first computer, an 8088 with 4.5 mhz. I didn’t know much about computers at the time but I knew it was cool....
2024-01-17 (first published: 2024-01-04)
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Changing the Origin in Git–#SQLNewBlogger
I needed to show a customer how to migrate from Azure DevOps to GitHub recently, and to smooth this process, we needed to repoint the origin remote. Another post...
2024-12-30 (first published: 2024-01-03)
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Power BI Embedding: Essential Learning Resources
Introduction
In this blog, you will find valuable resources to help you better understand the Power BI Embedding feature. Whether you are looking for ways to integrate Power BI into...
2024-01-15 (first published: 2024-01-03)
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Testing Microsoft Fabric - Part 4
After several discussions with the Microsoft team and chatting with Sunil Sabat about the testing I was conducting, the conclusion was...
2024-01-03
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Finding Foreign Keys in Azure SQL DB
There are plenty of times I’m called upon to fix data. To do this, I must know what dependencies are in the database. Foreign keys are a crucial aspect...
2024-01-17 (first published: 2024-01-02)
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Update Azure SQL database and storage account public endpoint firewalls with Data Factory IP ranges
While a private endpoint and vNets are preferred, sometimes we need to configure Azure SQL Database or Azure Storage to allow use of public endpoints. In that case, an...
2024-01-10 (first published: 2024-01-02)
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Why you should consider Power BI Cleaner
Introduction
You have probably created various auxiliary tables, columns or metrics during report development. Before the final deployment of the report into production, it is necessary to delete these auxiliary...
2024-01-12 (first published: 2024-01-02)
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Career Plan for 2024
It’s a holiday today, but I’m dropping this as I spent last week working on it. I wrote about having a career plan on Friday, with a few notes...
2024-01-01
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SQL Server Blog quarterly review
This SQL Server blog roll talks about the few blog articles I have published in last couple of months. I am certain you would like reading
The post SQL...
2024-01-08 (first published: 2024-01-01)
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Spark Connect
Spark Connect References https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-connect-overview.html
https://www.databricks.com/blog/2022/07/07/introducing-spark-connect-the-power-of-apache-spark-everywhere.html
Reference Implementations Rust
GOLang
Source gRPC proto files https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/master/connector/connect/common/src/main/protobuf/spark/connect
Useful Videos If this doesn’t get you excited then nothing will it is, of course, suitable for work, it is...
2024-01-01
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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...
Forums
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