A Non-Technical Reason to Not Use SELECT *
I got a merge a while back that included a change I wasn’t expecting from one of my developers. All they were doing was renaming a column on a...
2021-01-19
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Create an S3 Lifecycle Policy with PowerShell
First, I’m a big believer in doing infrastructure as code.
Using the AWS SDK with any library is great, but for things like S3 I’d highly recommend you use a...
2021-03-24 (first published: 2021-01-19)
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Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 2 - ROW_NUMBER()
The next example is how to do a ROW_NUMBER(), my favourite window function.
T-SQL SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY dateTime) as RowNumber FROM chicago.safety_data Spark SQL SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER...
2021-01-18
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Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 2 - ROW_NUMBER()
The next example is how to do a ROW_NUMBER(), my favourite window function.
T-SQL SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY dateTime) as RowNumber FROM chicago.safety_data Spark SQL SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER...
2021-01-18
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Synapse Analytics Spark Example 2 - ROW_NUMBER()
The next example is how to do a ROW_NUMBER(), my favourite window function.
T-SQL SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY dateTime) as RowNumber FROM chicago.safety_data Spark SQL SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER...
2021-01-18
432 reads
Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 1 - Group By
I have been playing around with the new Azure Synapse Analytics, and I realised that this is an excellent opportunity for people to move to Apache Spark. Synapse Analytics...
2021-01-18
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Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 1 - Group By
I have been playing around with the new Azure Synapse Analytics, and I realised that this is an excellent opportunity for people to move to Apache Spark. Synapse Analytics...
2021-01-18
30 reads
Synapse Analytics Spark Example 1 - Group By
I have been playing around with the new Azure Synapse Analytics, and I realised that this is an excellent opportunity for people to move to Apache Spark. Synapse Analytics...
2021-01-18
55 reads
Renaming Files by Padding Numbers with PowerShell
Some time ago I had downloaded all the SQL Saturday XML files. I’ve been meaning to flatten those into a database, but that project keeps getting away from me....
2021-01-18
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When do Statistics get updated?
Statistics objects are important for allowing the SQL Server Optimizer to make good estimates and form efficient execution plans. Related to that it's useful for us to understand when...
2021-01-25 (first published: 2021-01-18)
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Blogs
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Steve Jones
I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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