Microsoft Fabric is transforming real-time analytics for financial institutions. It provides a unified data platform. This platform integrates various data sources into a single, cohesive system. This integration breaks...
2025-04-16 (first published: 2025-04-03)
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Understanding how permissions work in Microsoft Fabric can be essential for anyone managing access to Lakehouses, SQL Endpoints, or Semantic Models.
2025-04-16 (first published: 2025-04-03)
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Does skipping a DBA save money? Wait until your system grinds to a halt, your backups fail, or your cloud bill skyrockets. The “DBA? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’...
2025-04-14 (first published: 2025-04-02)
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I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?, I had never heard of an identity map. It's a pretty simply thing: mapping all...
2025-04-11 (first published: 2025-04-01)
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Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure Data Factory (or Synapse Pipelines). This can be done using a Web Activity, and most...
2025-04-09 (first published: 2025-04-01)
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The Distributed Availability Group Dashboard can be downloaded from our GitHub repo. https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/DAG%20Dashboard.pbix. This comes off of the back of my last post looking at using a distributed availability...
2025-04-14 (first published: 2025-04-01)
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A customer asked if they needed to restore a database from backup to compare the schema in a database. They don’t and this post shows that. This is part...
2025-04-21 (first published: 2025-03-31)
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If we aren't having the same conversation, we aren't going to be heard. That's what Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, covered in the following TED talk:
2025-04-18 (first published: 2025-03-31)
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A while back I wrote about using AI to explore why people are not using Extended Events. You can read all about it here, but a short summary of...
2025-04-11 (first published: 2025-03-31)
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Core skills depends on the position, but the point is that ensuring you have a strong foundational base for your chosen area is better than reaching for emerging skills.
2025-03-28
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A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
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“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers