Speaker at SQL Saturday# 912 – New York 2019
I’m very happy to announce that for the first time, I will be participating as speaker at the SQL Saturday# 912 in New York City! This event will be...
2019-10-02
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Shutting Off PowerShell Warnings–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Not really a SQL Server post, but I...
2019-10-02
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How to read documentation
I was thinking about a comment I made to my intern last week. She has been studiously attending to all the different things I do in my day (what...
2019-10-02
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SQL Homework – October 2019 – Code review (self and peer)
Every database person I’ve ever met writes at least some code at some point in their career. That code might ... Continue reading
2019-10-14 (first published: 2019-10-02)
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Book Announcement – Query Store for SQL Server 2019
After nearly a year of work, starting with the proposal that I finished writing in a hospital last year the book is finished and off to be published and...
2019-10-02
14 reads
Book Announcement – Query Store for SQL Server 2019
After nearly a year of work, starting with the proposal that I finished writing in a hospital last year the book is finished and off to be published and...
2019-10-02
17 reads
Book Announcement – Query Store for SQL Server 2019
After nearly a year of work, starting with the proposal that I finished writing in a hospital last year the book is finished and off to be published and...
2019-10-02
50 reads
How to test ETL Processes in production
This is the final part in the four-part series into testing ETL pipelines, how exciting!
Part 1 - Unit Testing https://the.agilesql.club/2019/07/how-do-we-test-etl-pipelines-part-one-unit-tests/ Part 2 - Integration Testing https://the.agilesql.club/2019/08/how-do-we-prove-our-etl-processes-are-correct-how-do-we-make-sure-upstream-changes-dont-break-our-processes-and-break-our-beautiful-data/ Part 3...
2019-10-02
14 reads
How to test ETL Processes in production
This is the final part in the four-part series into testing ETL pipelines, how exciting!
Part 1 - Unit Testing https://the.agilesql.club/2019/07/how-do-we-test-etl-pipelines-part-one-unit-tests/ Part 2 - Integration Testing https://the.agilesql.club/2019/08/how-do-we-prove-our-etl-processes-are-correct-how-do-we-make-sure-upstream-changes-dont-break-our-processes-and-break-our-beautiful-data/ Part 3...
2019-10-02
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Why Does Everyone Have More Friends Than You?
No, the answer isn’t because you’re a DBA. This isn’t a technical post about databases, but rather a discussion of a statistical paradox that I read about recently. Statistics...
2019-10-01
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Blogs
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers