Investigating Azure Databricks
At SQL Saturday #884 – Pensacola, I dropped into Rodney Ladrum’s session on Azure Databricks (ADB) and the Traditional DBA. I had heard a bit about Databricks, and read...
2019-07-17
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Understanding Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server Part 3
My last two blogs were on understanding columnstore and creating columnstore indexes. In this post, I will touch on one last topic, when to use columnstore indexes. As noted...
2019-08-05 (first published: 2019-07-17)
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Is it just me or does msdb feel a lot like a user database?
When you think of system databases, tables, etc there are a number of things you might think of. Necessary to ... Continue reading
2019-08-07 (first published: 2019-07-17)
668 reads
SQL Server 2019 Query Store And SSMS
While not specific to SQL Server 2019 (I was using this version to do some testing) I was struggling to find how to change the time period of analysis...
2019-07-17
52 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #116 Roundup – SQL on Linux
This month’s topic is wide open to anything you could think of that had to do with SQL on Linux from something technical on how to implement it or...
2019-07-17
12 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #116 Roundup – SQL on Linux
This month’s topic is wide open to anything you could think of that had to do with SQL on Linux from something technical on how to implement it or...
2019-07-17
22 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #116 Roundup – SQL on Linux
This month’s topic is wide open to anything you could think of that had to do with SQL on Linux from something technical on how to implement it or...
2019-07-17
43 reads
Adding a Column with a Default Constraint
Last week a question came up about adding a column to a table, and giving that column a default constraint. Would that default value be assigned to all existing...
2019-07-24 (first published: 2019-07-16)
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Painless Synchronization of Azure Blob Storage with AWS S3
Synchronization
Moving data between two cloud providers can be painful, and require more provider scripting if doing api calls. For this, you can benefit from a tool that abstracts the...
2019-07-16
34 reads
Rename Azure VM OS Disk
In a recent post about creating Azure VMs using PowerShell, I noted a common issue that I run into where the name of the OS disk does not conform...
2019-08-08 (first published: 2019-07-16)
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Blogs
Why AI isn’t paying off yet, and what to invest in first
Why isn’t AI paying off yet? Drawing on lessons from digital transformation, Joyful Craftsmen...
Flyway Tips: Analytics Platforms (Snowflake and Databricks)
By Steve Jones
I’m really excited about some growth in Flyway support. I’ve been asking about this...
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,...
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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