ETL Antipattern: Skipping The Documentation
Documentation is an asset that is both loathed and loved. Creating technical and business documentation is often looked upon as a tedious chore, something that really ought to be...
2020-12-20
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ETL Antipattern: Skipping The Documentation
Documentation is an asset that is both loathed and loved. Creating technical and business documentation is often looked upon as a tedious chore, something that really ought to be...
2020-12-20
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TF-IDF in .NET for Apache Spark Using Spark ML v2
Spark ML in .NET for Apache Spark Apache Spark has had a machine learning API for quite some time and this has been partially implemented in .NET for Apache...
2020-12-19
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TF-IDF in .NET for Apache Spark Using Spark ML v2
Spark ML in .NET for Apache Spark Apache Spark has had a machine learning API for quite some time and this has been partially implemented in .NET for Apache...
2020-12-19
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ETL Antipattern: Load Processes that Don’t Scale
One of the most significant design considerations in ETL process development is the volume of data to be processed. Most ETL processes have time constraints that require them to...
2020-12-19
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ETL Antipattern: Load Processes that Don’t Scale
One of the most significant design considerations in ETL process development is the volume of data to be processed. Most ETL processes have time constraints that require them to...
2020-12-19
265 reads
Placing my Bid for SQLSaturday.com
I’m making my bid. I don’t know this brand needs to continue, or that it will, but I’d like to hold this for posterity, at least in an interim...
2020-12-24 (first published: 2020-12-18)
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Speaker Guidance: Save Your Data
The PASS organization (and likely SQL Saturday) are shutting down their sites on 15 Jan, 2021. This means that potentially lots of links and data will disappear. There are...
2020-12-29 (first published: 2020-12-18)
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ETL Antipattern: Failure to Test and Validate
“If it compiles, it works.” – An unemployed developer Building ETL processes is quite easy. Building ETL processes that deliver accurate results as quickly as possible is substantially more...
2020-12-18
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ETL Antipattern: Failure to Test and Validate
“If it compiles, it works.” – An unemployed developer Building ETL processes is quite easy. Building ETL processes that deliver accurate results as quickly as possible is substantially more...
2020-12-18
18 reads
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How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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