A New Word: Lyssamania

lyssanmania – n. the irrational fear that someone you know is angry at you, that as soon as you wander into the room, you’ll be faced with a barrage...

SQL Server documentation refresh: Logical and physical showplan operator reference

Understanding query plans is key to successful query tuning in Microsoft SQL Server. Randolph West of the Microsoft docs team posted on Thursday that the logical and physical showplan...

Exploring the Spark Connect gRPC API

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Goal of this post In the first two posts, we looked at how to run some Spark code, firstly against a local Spark Connect server and...

Consolidating Cloud Backups

I am a big fan of the cloud. While I appreciate local storage and privacy/control/security, etc., that stuff can also go away locally. Plus, I like the convenience, and...

How to Call REST API using VS Code

Sometimes you need a fast way to test your API call and responses, and for that VS code is the perfect tool to do that. For today’s demo, we...

SQL Server's Buffer Cache: How to Calculate Dirty Page Sizes

SQL Server's Buffer Cache: How to Calculate Dirty Page Sizes

As we know, the SQL Server buffer cache is an area or region inside the server's memory where SQL Server...

Your gradient fill bar charts in Power BI have poor color contrast, but you can fix them

Since conditional formatting was released for Power BI, I have seen countless examples of bar charts that have a gradient color fill. If you aren’t careful about the gradient...

Your gradient fill bar charts in Power BI have poor color contrast, but you can fix them

Since conditional formatting was released for Power BI, I have seen countless examples of bar charts that have a gradient color fill. If you aren’t careful about the gradient...

Using Spark Connect from .NET to run Spark jobs on Databricks

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Goal of this post This post aims to show how we can create a .NET application, deploy it to Databricks, and then run a Databricks job...

Moving SQL Prompt History to Another Machine

A customer was asking about SQL Prompt recently and how their history is stored and if it can be moved to another machine. This post shows how this works,...