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Migrations are Worth the Effort

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Steve prefers database migrations as a way of making changes to a database, though he knows they are hard. He gives a few reasons to choose them.

Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric

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SQLServerCentral

Source control is fundamental when dealing with projects and sharing code between multiple developers. Power BI present some challenges related to source control. But it’s finally providing us with a solution to these challenges. Let’s analyse this piece-by-piece.

A Thriving Community Lifts All Boats

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral

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I'm writing this on the last day of PGConf.EU, sitting here in Prague. I'm looking forward to sitting in several more sessions today, as well as having a few more conversations with the people at the conference. It's been a great event and I'm so happy I've been able to take part. Following the PASS […]

Searching an Encrypted Column

by Dave Lafayette

SQLServerCentral

This article examines the challenges with searches on encrypted data and presents a possible solution that you might use to speed up those queries.

Try, Try Again, Until It's Right

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

A cloud migration for DoorDash interested Steve, primarily because it didn't work, but they were able to back out and try again.

Running Azure CosmosDB queries from SQL Server using ODBC driver

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Microsoft MSDN

Azure CosmosDB provides ODBC driver that enables you to query CosmosDB collections like classic databases. In this post you will see how to query CosmosDB collections from Sql Server using Transact-Sql.

When an update doesn’t update

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SimpleTalk

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Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: I changed data from my application, but when I checked the database, I couldn’t see the change! I’ve seen this. Loads. It can be quite perplexing for folks because they expect to see an error message if the insert, update, or delete failed.