My 800th post!
It took me a little bit longer to get here than I expected but I finally made it. 800 posts. ... Continue reading
2020-10-20
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Azure Databricks to Power BI
A very common approach is to query data straight from Databricks via Power BI. For this you need Databricks token and the JDBC address URL. This is found within...
2020-10-20
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SQLSaturday #1000! Join Oregon Virtually this Saturday
Honored to be a part of not just SQLSaturday #1000, but the long proud history of the free community series of SQLSaturdays celebrating their 1000th+ event. (I spoke at...
2020-10-19
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Azure DevOps–Reconfiguring an Agent
This post looks at how to re-configure a local Azure DevOps agent when you need to change to a new pool or organization. PAT Expired I got a note...
2020-10-26 (first published: 2020-10-19)
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Daily Coping 19 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...
2020-10-19
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Daily Coping 16 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...
2020-10-16
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Write It Down!
Recently I set up a new process to pull data out of a MySQL database and into SQL Server. Pretty standard ETL stuff, but it’s the organization’s first time...
2020-10-16
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2020-10-16
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2020-10-16
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Synapse and federated queries
As I was finishing up a demo script for my presentation at the SQL PASS Virtual Summit on 11/13 (details on my session here), I wanted to blog about...
2020-10-23 (first published: 2020-10-15)
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Backing Up a DMK
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