Snowflake Architecture – The Basics
At the most basic level, Snowflake has 3 important components. The Cloud services layer, centralised storage layer and the compute layer. Cloud services – they call this the “brains”...
2022-07-19
44 reads
Speaking at SQL Saturday LA
SQL Saturday is coming back in-person to Los Angeles. I’ve been to this event a few times, and was sad when the pandemic pushed it virtual. However, 2022 is...
2022-07-18
14 reads
Database Search in SQL Monitor
I learned something new recently. I can search in SQL Monitor for a database name, not just a server or instance name. I tested this over at monitor.red-gate.com recently...
2022-07-18
37 reads
Sabbatical!
Redgate Software has a policy wherein every 5 years, employees receive a 6-week paid sabbatical. Well, I’m up to year 11 (I skipped a year my first time), so...
2022-07-18
11 reads
Mounting ADLS point using Spark in Azure Synapse
Last weekend, I played a bit with Azure Synapse from a way of mounting Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 in Synapse notebook within API in the Microsoft Spark...
2022-07-18
22 reads
Mounting ADLS point using Spark in Azure Synapse
Last weekend, I played a bit with Azure Synapse from a way of mounting Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 in Synapse notebook within API in the Microsoft Spark...
2022-07-18
417 reads
Daily Coping 18 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-18
32 reads
Typing with Your Tongue – Voice to Text Technologies
This is the second in the series of tools and technologies that I use to deal with the loss of functionality in my hands and arms. Check out this article for...
2022-07-15
58 reads
Daily Coping 15 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-15
56 reads
Quality Checks for your Power BI Visuals
For more formal enterprise Power BI development, many people have a checklist to ensure data acquisition and data modeling quality and performance. Fewer people have a checklist for their...
2022-07-15
170 reads
Blogs
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Steve Jones
I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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