Has AI Changed Software Development?
Generative AI is everywhere, but especially in software development. Is it helping us? Steve has a few thoughts.
Dijkstra's Algorithm
Introduction This article celebrates a classic algorithm [1] of Dijkstra (1930 – 2002) which finds a path of minimal cost between any pair of nodes in an undirected graph. His procedure is widely recognized as a fundamental tool for examining communication and transportation networks (eg. Google Maps) and is surprisingly simple. By his own admission, […]
Projects To Showcase Your Skills
A good way to showcase your skills is by working through and documenting a project and solution. Steve notes today that this is important in today's hiring market and asks for sample projects you might suggest for others.
Interesting Aurora MySQL Feature: The Buffer Pool Survives Restarts
Lemme start this off by saying this is probably irrelevant to you. (It’s irrelevant to me, too.)
New Power BI Explore this Data Feature: An Alternative to Excel Pivot Tables
Learn how to pivot and analyze data in Power BI like you can do in Excel for fast and easy data analysis.
Fixing Poor Programming Practices
Today Steve has a few stories of how he's fixed poor programming practices and asks you to share your own.
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Using Spark Jobs for Multiple Lakehouse Maintenance in Microsoft Fabric
I have published videos and articles before about Lakehouse maintenance. In this article I want to address a missing point for a lot of Fabric administrators: How to do maintenance on multiple lakehouses that are located in different workspaces.
Happy New Year 2024
Happy New Year from Steve, with a reminder to work on your career plan for 2024.
Minimal Downtime Storage Migration of Large Databases
This article shows how we were able to migrate a TB size database to new storage with minimal downtime.
Blogs
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
T-SQL Tuesday #197 Invitation – An impactful session or two from a conference
By DataOnWheels
I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new...
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Using OPENJSON
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Data Modeling with dbt for Visual Code: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Question of the Day
Using OPENJSON
I have some data in a table that looks like this:
BeerID BeerName brewer beerdescription 1 Becks Interbrew Beck's is a German-style pilsner beer 2 Fat Tire New Belgium Toasty malt, gentle sweetness, flash of fresh hop bitterness. 3 Mac n Jacks Mac & Jack's Brewery This beer erupts with a floral, hoppy taste 4 Alaskan Amber Alaskan Brewing Alaskan Brewing Amber Ale is an "alt" style beer 8 Kirin Kirin Brewing Kirin Ichiban is a Lager-type beerIf I run this, what is returned?
select t1.key
from openjson((select t.* FROM Beer AS t for json path)) t1 See possible answers