Query Plans in Azure Data Studio
I have long been a fan of Azure Data Studio, but one shortcoming has kept me from truly adopting it: Query Plans in Azure Data Studio. Sure, there was...
2022-03-21 (first published: 2022-03-07)
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Reading more efficiently
In IT, we have to read a lot. For instance, understanding how to set something in Azure or Okta or vSphere may mean we are consuming 5 or more...
2022-03-18 (first published: 2022-03-07)
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Daily Coping 7 Mar 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...
2022-03-07
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KQL and ADX – Is this really like SQL?
Hopefully, you’re aware that Azure Data Explorer can be accessed by anybody with a valid Microsoft Account Identity or MSA for short. If you need a one, then hop...
2022-03-23 (first published: 2022-03-07)
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ADX and KQL – Free Cluster for learning purposes
G’day, I’ve been looking around a bit lately at Azure Data Explorer (ADX) Clusters and the Kusto Query Language (KQL). I recently learned that Microsoft is letting people experience...
2022-03-07 (first published: 2022-03-06)
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Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory | Part 1
(2022-Mar-04) Looking in the Oxford dictionary, Metadata can be described as "information that describes other information in order to help you understand or use it", as well as Pipeline is "a series...
2022-03-23 (first published: 2022-03-04)
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Secure Travel
Last Updated on March 4, 2022 by John Morehouse Update: This post was originally published on March 8th, 2019 and a lot of things have changed over the last...
2022-03-04
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Daily Coping 4 Mar 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...
2022-03-04
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Recipe 10: Writing Events to InfluxDB
Welcome to the last recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-03-04
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Introduction to Snowflake Data Platform
Snowflake is a columnar cloud native data platform for data warehouse and big data analytics. Snowflake provides massive scale and high-performance compute resource for data(more...)
The post Introduction to Snowflake...
2022-03-04
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
Forums
Two queries work until compared with EXCEPT statement
I've got multiple databases on 2 SQL 2019 CU32 servers , all using the...
STRING_AGG DISTINCT
Has anyone written a wrapper function (or similar) around STRING_AGG() to allow the retrieval...
In-place OS upgrade or migration to new OS?
Putting this here as we're currently on SQL Server 2019 installed on Windows Server...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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