There may be a million details on this, but I'd start with two general concepts.

For emptying the table in order to reload it, TRUNCATE is your best bet. There are...

One thing I would strongly suggest for your career, don't get hung up on labels or titles. I was working as a database developer, and by that I mean, designing,...

For learning Synapse, also look up Azure Data Warehouse. That's the old name. So there's a lot more documentation there. I have a few blog posts. I used to teach...

Synapse is really cool, and worth your time. It also doesn't change that much at the core. At the edges though, hoo boy.

I've been working with Azure for over 10 years now (and I've added AWS in the last year, along with some other stuff). Fact is, it's hard. Take Azure SQL...

Availability Groups are generally considered to be the modern, safe, approach to high availability. At the very least, they get a lot more love & attention from Microsoft than any...

Yeah, what jeff said.

Ooh, yeah, PowerBI. Another vote for exploring that space as a possible solution. In fact, it might work for you and not require a lot of data movement. Maybe.

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Nope. It's almost two years old. It was a wildly successful release with very few bugs or issues. What it did have (nothing is perfect) has largely been addressed by...

The key to deadlocks is usually, but not always, that you have multiple different queries, not the same query, that are accessing the various tables in different orders. Meaning, one...

This might not be real simple. Microsoft lists a bunch of ways you can do it though. Probably the easiest is using the SQL Server Import/Export Wizard in Excel....

Hmmm. Weird.

I'd suggest putting Extended Events to work. You can look for Object: Altered events. I'm pretty sure that's where it would come up. Just filter by the database(s) in...

Statistics maintenance is a huge topic. Suffice to say, more updates are better (usually, but not always). Detailed scans for updates are better (usually, but not always). The only way...

You're going to have to think through the relationships between all these things a bit more and then create tables based on those relationships. For example, I don't see a...