Power Platform Conference – 7/23-24/2019
Pragmatic Works is hosting a 2-day Power Platform online conference. If you are unable to get out to onsite conference but need some help with Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, or...
2019-07-15
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Learning more Kubernetes
I’ve been slowly working my way through the 50 days of Kubernetes (K8s). As you might have guessed if you remember my first post, this has been more than...
2019-08-08 (first published: 2019-07-15)
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sp_RestoreScript v1.4 – It’s Now Compatible with Case Sensitive Collations, Accepts Wild Cards in DB Names and Fixes A bug
sp_RestoreScript 1.4 is now out and ready for download from our GitHub, https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/sp_restorescript.sql New Features Compatible with case sensitive collations Now accepts wild cards in the @DatabaseName string, (‘Database1,Database2,SQL%’)...
2019-07-15
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Refreshing dependent views after a DDL change
When you are in charge of databases with tons of objects, making a small change over an object can be difficult to replicate if you have a lot of...
2019-07-15
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Refreshing dependent views after a DDL change
When you are in charge of databases with tons of objects, making a small change over an object can be difficult to replicate if you have a lot of...
2019-08-02 (first published: 2019-07-15)
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Short circuiting an AND
The other day I did a post on how an OR short circuts. It was a somewhat unusual type of ... Continue reading
2019-08-06 (first published: 2019-07-15)
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Implement DevOps One Step At a Time
In preparation for my upcoming DevOps training days (see the bottom of this post for details) and for some articles I’m working on, I’ve been building all new automation...
2019-08-02 (first published: 2019-07-15)
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spark-dotnet examples - reading and writing csv files
How do you read and write CSV files using the dotnet driver for Apache Spark?
I have a runnable example here:
https://github.com/GoEddie/dotnet-spark-examples
Specifcally:
https://github.com/GoEddie/dotnet-spark-examples/tree/master/examples/split-csv
Let's take a walkthrough of the demo:
Console.WriteLine("Hello Spark!"); var spark...
2019-07-15
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spark-dotnet examples - reading and writing csv files
How do you read and write CSV files using the dotnet driver for Apache Spark?
I have a runnable example here:
https://github.com/GoEddie/dotnet-spark-examples
Specifcally:
https://github.com/GoEddie/dotnet-spark-examples/tree/master/examples/split-csv
Let’s take a walkthrough of the demo:
Console.WriteLine("Hello Spark!"); var spark...
2019-07-15
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Weekly reading #21
Hello, hello! We have just started new week! We missed the weekly reading last time due to travelling across the Europe over the weekend. There is however a lot...
2019-07-15
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How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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