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
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Using the T-SQL Error Functions–#SQLNewBlogger
I was working with a customer that was doing some error handling in procs and helped them do some error tracking. As we were working through things, I realized...
2024-02-21 (first published: 2024-02-07)
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In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
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