I'll be presenting at two virtual SQL data platform communities this week on a couple well-rehearsed topics, each with fresh updates.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST
DBA...
2021-02-22
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I really don’t like Powerpoint. I’ll do pretty much anything to avoid writing a presentation in it. Thankfully for the last few years there’s been a service called GitPitch...
2021-02-26 (first published: 2021-02-21)
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This is a super simple way to retain the data and settings that you create and change on your SQL Server Docker instance. There’s a lot of talk about...
2021-02-21
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2021-02-20
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I had a great time speaking at the Kansas City SQL Server User Group on Thursday, February 18th. The more I present my Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools...
2021-02-20
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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...
2021-02-19
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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...
2021-02-18
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Taking a screen shot from my Azure Portal, you will see the available hardware configurations available for Azure SQL Database. I wrote about Generation 4 and 5 in the...
2021-02-18
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Question: When an activity in a Data Factory pipeline fails, does the entire pipeline fail?Answer: It depends In Azure Data Factory, a pipeline is a logical grouping of activities...
2021-02-25 (first published: 2021-02-18)
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This series looks at the Advent of Code challenges. As one of my goals, I’m working through challenges. This post looks at day 2. Part 1 This problem is...
2021-02-17
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Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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