How to Implement CI/CD in Azure Data Factory (ADF)
Learn how you can use CI/CD with your ADF Pipelines and Azure DevOps using ARM templates.
2023-03-10
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Articles
On-Demand Webinar - Monitoring: The ROI of Build vs. Buy
Missed our recent webinar on ‘Monitoring: The ROI of Build vs Buy’? Catch up on demand and find out the pros and cons to building a monitoring system versus purchasing one. Watch now!
2023-03-10
SELECT DISTINCT SQL Command to Return a Unique List of Values
Learn about the SELECT DISTINCT SQL command to return a unique list of values from SELECT queries along with several examples.
2023-03-10
AWS Lambdas with C#
In this article, I will take you through the development process of building an API on the serverless cloud with C#. This API will be built to serve pizzas, with two endpoints, one for making pizza and the other for tasting fresh pizzas. I expect some general familiarity with AWS and serverless computing. Any previous experience with building APIs in .NET will also come in handy.
2023-03-08
Complex Production Database Deployments and Flyway
This article explains how, by use of schemas and stub interfaces, we can use Flyway to manage the main development work smoothly alongside any changes or additions required to maintain production-only code.
2023-03-08
ChatGPT in SQL Server - Practical examples
Introduction ChatGPT in SQL Server In this article, we will learn some basic examples of ChatGPT in SQL Server. In a previous article, we had an interview with ChatGPT an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. If you do not know how to use it yet, you can go to that article. We will show some […]
2023-03-06
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Join us in our castle at SQL Bits, March 15-18
SQL Bits is coming to Wales, home of dragons and D&D, and we’re happy announce we’re supporting them as platinum sponsors again this year. Meet us at our Red Keep and catch sessions by noble Fighter Grant Fritchey, Sorcerer Steve Jones, and more beloved Redgate Paladins and Druids. For a magical 10% discount on your ticket, use 10REDGATE from our spell book.
2023-03-06
Snowflake for SQL Server Developers - NULL Functions - Part 2
Learn about NULL functions that exist in Snowflake but not in SQL Server like NVL2, ZEROIFNULL, EQUAL_NULL, and IS_NULL_VALUE.
2023-03-06
Understanding Azure Synapse Analytics Pricing
Learn about the different parts of Azure Synapse Analytics and what it costs for each of these areas.
2023-03-03
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Creating Animated Line Plots with Python
Python has the ability to create many different types of charts and graphs and in this article, we look at how to create animated line plots with Python.
2023-03-03
Blogs
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
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SSMS 22 still inserting tabs instead of spaces
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Forums
Cumulative Update 23 - KB5074819 - Database Mail - No longer working.
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Script Task execution error with HTTP request
I have a script task that tries to execute a HTTP request, which seems...
SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition
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Question of the Day
URL Safe or Not?
If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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