With the ubiquity of real-time data, organizations need streaming systems that are scalable, easy to use, and easy to integrate into business applications. Structured Streaming is a new high-level streaming API in Apache Spark based on my experience with Spark Streaming. In this article, we show structured streaming data written into Spark Tables and consumed by reporting Analytic for reporting needs.
2025-05-02
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Driving my soon-to-be granddaughter to school today (my son is getting married and will adopt the young lady), we saw a dead armadillo, a turtle in the road (rescued it) and an escaped cow (left it alone). THEN... old soon-to-be granddad had forgotten lunch, so had to deliver that back at the school (cow must […]
2025-04-26
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I need to drop constraints on a number of my SQL Server tables. Most of our constraints are primary key and foreign keys, but there are other constraints too. How can we script it so it will deploy with a pipeline in a repeatable manner?
2025-04-14
Last week, I had the chance to speak at two very different events, and the contrast between them really stuck with me. The first was all a traditional vendor conference- enterprise-level, built around a well-established product with over 40 years of vendor-driven development. Think polished sponsor tables, polished shoes, and more than a few suits […]
2025-04-12
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This next article in the Stairway to Synapse looks at Delta tables and processing streaming data.
2025-06-06 (first published: 2025-04-09)
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Join Redgate on May 1st for an insightful webinar cohosted with analyst firm, Bloor Research, featuring independent Senior Analyst Daniel Howard and Redgate's Steve Jones. Discover the biggest test data challenges, the latest approaches like AI synthetic data generation, and how effective test data management can benefit your entire organization. Don't miss out on this opportunity to gain valuable insights and solutions.
2025-04-30 (first published: 2025-04-07)
Introduction As you may know, in the early days of SQL Server Clustering, Microsoft advised to provide each clustered SQL Server instance with its own Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) resource. Since SQL Server 2012 this advice has been withdrawn. Microsoft now recommends to provide your instance with its own MSDTC resource, once you notice the […]
2025-04-04
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I won't even try to hide it. I got a huge kick out of the penguin characters in the animated movie, Madagascar. For those who don't know, they're trying to escape the zoo, but are trying to hide that from anyone discovering it. So, they put up a front, "Smile and wave boys. Smile and […]
2025-03-22
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The other day, my lovable coworker and frequent Simple Talk writer: Grant Fritchey, sent this post on X:
2025-03-21
This article shows a solution to the challenge of multiple databases on one RDS instance with different databases and the limitation of 5000 connections.
2025-03-12
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By Chris Yates
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By Steve Jones
Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This...
By Kevin3NF
If your production SQL Servers are still running 2016 (or older) you’re basically banking...
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