How Do You Decide When Can Doesn't Mean Should?
An old proverb states, “Fire is a good servant but a bad master.” Put simply, it means that when controlled, fire is a life-sustaining element. We need it for...
2020-02-07
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New .NET Notebooks are here – PowerShell 7 notebooks are here.
Data Science folk used Notebooks for documentation and to show re-runnable research. Azure Data Studio included this notebook functionality and added SQL kernel where with a little bit of...
2020-02-07
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Performance Tuning with Computed Columns
Computed Column can be utilized to optimize the query performance. It can be leveraged, to make the query sargeable, to make proper use of available indexes.
In this article,...
2020-02-06
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Lessons from Iowa’s Caucus Debacle
Earlier this week, the state of Iowa held its caucuses to choose each political party’s nominee for November’s presidential election. Being the first state in each election cycle to...
2020-02-11 (first published: 2020-02-06)
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Power Platform Quick Tips – Episode 04: Hiding Power BI Visuals Interactivity
Welcome back to my series on Power Platform quick tips! In this episode you will learn how to hide the interactive capabilities of your report
2020-02-13 (first published: 2020-02-05)
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Passing status messages and results back from Databricks to ADF
When we use ADF to call Databricks we can pass parameters, nice. When we finish running the Databricks notebook we often want to return something back to ADF so...
2020-02-05
18 reads
Passing status messages and results back from Databricks to ADF
When we use ADF to call Databricks we can pass parameters, nice. When we finish running the Databricks notebook we often want to return something back to ADF so...
2020-02-05
57 reads
Protect Your Prod Databases in Azure DevOps / TFS: Three Control Points
When implementing any kind of automation for database deployments, it’s important to implement safeguards for your production environment. This is needed even in the best conditions when team members...
2020-02-05
28 reads
I’m a DBA. Do I really need to know Kubernetes?
Welcome to February 2020. It’s the second month of the year 2020! I remember sitting at a server with SQL Server 6.5 installed on it, worrying about the Y2K...
2020-02-05
402 reads
#PowershellBasics: Get input using Read-Host
Conditions are the life blood of programming. This condition is met so now I need to do this task. That ... Continue reading
2020-02-11 (first published: 2020-02-05)
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Blogs
Accept the no and move on
By Brian Kelley
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin....
Don’t Fight with AI
By Steve Jones
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
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jdbc auth failing to sql from sap's cloud middleware CPI
hi , our business partner is asking s4 sap api's for receivable info and...
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How to Work with On-Premises...
Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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