SQL Saturday ATL – BI Recap
First of all, wow! What an incredible event! Loved seeing everyone and meeting so many wonderful new people. Thank you to everyone who organized, spoke, and attended this event!...
2024-02-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #171–Helping a Customer Fix Something
It’s that time of the month for a new blog party at T-SQL Tuesday. This month we have Brent Ozar hosing, and it’s a good topic. I wondered what...
2024-02-13
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#TSQL2sday 171 – Describe the Most Recent Issue You Closed
It’s #TSQL2sday time! This month’s invitation has been sent out by Brent Ozar and he asks us to describe the most recent issue – or the last ticket –...
2024-02-23 (first published: 2024-02-13)
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Fabulous Stuff in Fabric – Part 4: The Office365 Outlook Activity
A while ago I had a little blog post series about cool stuff in Snowflake. I’m doing a similar series now, but this time for Microsoft Fabric. I’m not going...
2024-02-14 (first published: 2024-02-12)
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Last Weeks Reading (2024-02-11)
📰 News Power BI Project (PBIP) and Azure DevOps build pipelines for continuous integration Integrating the PBIP format with Azure DevOps lets you use Azure Pipelines to automate CI/CD...
2024-02-11
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Apache Spark from PHP - it is not just a .NET thing
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Goal of this post I wanted to explore what the Spark Connect API looked like from other languages, I am not a php developer - I...
2024-02-10
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Implementing functions and more fun in Spark Connect using gRPC and .NET
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Goal of this post The goal of this post is to look at creating a SparkSession and a DataFrame that will wrap the Range relation and...
2024-02-10
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Friday Flyway Tips–Dark Mode
I saw a post that Flyway Desktop has a dark mode and I had to try it out. I’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for work more and more...
2024-02-09
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A New Word: Wellium
wellium – n. an excuse you come up with to rationalize a disappointing outcome – telling yourself that you weren’t in the mood for that sold-out show anyway, that...
2024-02-09
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My data architecture book is published!
I’m thrilled to share that after 15 months of dedicated effort, my book, “Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh,”...
2024-02-08
172 reads
Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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