Data Thoughts – T-SQL Tuesday #148 – Advice on running a user group
G’day, This months T-SQL Tuesday (March 2022) invite is brought to you by Rie Merrit – @IrishSQL Rie has asked us to write about “Advice on running a user...
2022-03-08
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Extracting Data from the AFAS REST API with Azure Data Factory
AFAS is a Dutch business software company, proving companies with ERP and HR software-as-a-service. You can extract data from the service using a REST API (there are also SOAP...
2022-03-07
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Query Plans in Azure Data Studio
I have long been a fan of Azure Data Studio, but one shortcoming has kept me from truly adopting it: Query Plans in Azure Data Studio. Sure, there was...
2022-03-21 (first published: 2022-03-07)
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Reading more efficiently
In IT, we have to read a lot. For instance, understanding how to set something in Azure or Okta or vSphere may mean we are consuming 5 or more...
2022-03-18 (first published: 2022-03-07)
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Daily Coping 7 Mar 2022
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...
2022-03-07
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KQL and ADX – Is this really like SQL?
Hopefully, you’re aware that Azure Data Explorer can be accessed by anybody with a valid Microsoft Account Identity or MSA for short. If you need a one, then hop...
2022-03-23 (first published: 2022-03-07)
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ADX and KQL – Free Cluster for learning purposes
G’day, I’ve been looking around a bit lately at Azure Data Explorer (ADX) Clusters and the Kusto Query Language (KQL). I recently learned that Microsoft is letting people experience...
2022-03-07 (first published: 2022-03-06)
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Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory | Part 1
(2022-Mar-04) Looking in the Oxford dictionary, Metadata can be described as "information that describes other information in order to help you understand or use it", as well as Pipeline is "a series...
2022-03-23 (first published: 2022-03-04)
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Secure Travel
Last Updated on March 4, 2022 by John Morehouse Update: This post was originally published on March 8th, 2019 and a lot of things have changed over the last...
2022-03-04
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Daily Coping 4 Mar 2022
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...
2022-03-04
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A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
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Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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