go
Starter Template
I saved this as a snippet for vscode to get up and running quickly with something better than the defaults for handling func main isolation.
I’ve been working on...
2020-10-30
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shell
Installing go-task
This tool is great for cross-platform shell scripting as it runs all the commands in the Taskfile.yml using a built in go shell library that supports bash syntax...
2020-10-30
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Blog .NET for Apache Spark UDFs Missing Shared State
The Problem When you use a UDF in .NET for Apache Spark, something like this code:
class Program { static void Main(string args) { var spark = SparkSession.Builder().GetOrCreate(); _logging.AppendLine("Starting Select");...
2020-10-29
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Blog .NET for Apache Spark UDFs Missing Shared State
The Problem When you use a UDF in .NET for Apache Spark, something like this code:
class Program { static void Main(string args) { var spark = SparkSession.Builder().GetOrCreate(); _logging.AppendLine("Starting Select");...
2020-10-29
107 reads
Migrating SQL Server container images to the Github Container Registry
A couple of months ago Docker announced that they would be implementing a 6 month retention policy for unused images in the Docker Hub. This was due to kick...
2020-11-04 (first published: 2020-10-29)
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Daily Coping 29 Oct 2020
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...
2020-10-29
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What do they want to hear?
I was helping my 16yo write his first college essay the other day. He’s always struggled a bit with writing ... Continue reading
2020-11-03 (first published: 2020-10-29)
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DAX Logic and Blanks
A while back I was chatting with Shannon Lindsay on Twitter. She shares lots of useful Power BI tips there. She shared her syntax tip of the & operator...
2020-11-03 (first published: 2020-10-29)
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Using Write-Debug
I wrote a post about PoSh output recently, noting that in general we ought to use Write-Output or Write-Verbose for messaging. In there, I mentioned Write-Debug as well as...
2020-11-02 (first published: 2020-10-28)
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T-SQL Tuesday Retrospective #002: A Puzzling Situation
For the second T-SQL Tuesday ever — again, hosted by Adam Machanic — we were asked one of three options, and I elected to go with the first one:...
2020-11-02 (first published: 2020-10-28)
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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