Violin Plots in Power BI
In case you aren’t familiar, I would like to introduce you to the violin plot.
A violin plot is a...
2019-03-05 (first published: 2019-02-14)
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 6: Query History
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2019-02-14
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Victoria
I am so excited to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Victoria on Saturday, March 16, 2019. I will be presenting my What is...
2019-02-13
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Victoria
I am so excited to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Victoria on Saturday, March...
2019-02-13
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Free SQL tuning tool: How’s My Database?
It’s taken longer than I thought it may and I’ve run into several problems along the way but had a...
2019-02-13
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Where have I been?
Before you read too far, this is going to be a deeply personal post.Where do I begin? As many of...
2019-02-13
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Adding Objects to our SCA Project
In my last post, I started out with a new SCA project, getting a connection to my database up and...
2019-03-08 (first published: 2019-02-13)
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Proposed SQL Server defaults: cost threshold for parallelism
A few months ago I suggested that the following settings should be the default for most SQL Server instances: Set...
2019-02-13
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Speaking Internationally at SQLBits
I am very excited and lucky to be speaking at my very first international conference, SQLBits. SQLBits, the largest SQL...
2019-02-13
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Partitioning 2: Getting and measuring partition elimination
In Partitioning 1, my query searched through all 1-12 partitions. Let’s see if we can reduce that number.
Adding the partitioning...
2019-02-13
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Blogs
Why AI isn’t paying off yet, and what to invest in first
Why isn’t AI paying off yet? Drawing on lessons from digital transformation, Joyful Craftsmen...
Flyway Tips: Analytics Platforms (Snowflake and Databricks)
By Steve Jones
I’m really excited about some growth in Flyway support. I’ve been asking about this...
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
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Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers