The Senior Advantage
Being more senior in a role can be an advantage if you work at using your extra knowledge.
Extend your Power BI Reports with Analysis Services 2022 Data
This tip walks through the steps of how to combine data from SQL Server Analysis Services SSAS 2022 with other data using Power BI Desktop.
Testing Databases: What’s Required?
An overview of the challenges of database testing and test data management, reviewing the different types of database test that need to run during development work, what sort of test data they require, and how to manage all the required data sets, during development, in a way that allows rapid cycles of parallel testing.
The Data Fabric – Future of Data Management
This article provides an overview of Data Fabric and its components.
Ingesting Data from Google Drive to Azure Data Lake Gen2 using Azure Data Factory
Learn how to setup, configure and ingest data from Google Drive using Azure Data Factory in this step-by-step article.
Introducing the MySQL common table expression
As with many relational database management systems, MySQL provides a variety of methods for combining data in a data manipulation language (DML) statement. You can join multiple tables in a single query or add subqueries that pull data in from other tables.
Backup Directly to a GCS Bucket in SQL Server 2022
Learn how you can back up your SQL Server 2022 databases to Google Cloud Storage.
Dealing with Mutually Dependent Databases in Flyway
How to create and manage 'stub' objects, in Flyway migrations, in order to overcome build failures caused by circular, or mutual, dependencies between objects in different databases. The technique should be applicable to any RDBMS.
Encrypt SQL Server Stored Procedures to Protect Source Code
In this article, we cover how to encrypt a SQL Server stored procedure and how SQL Server hides the source code for these objects once encrypted.
Publishing a Public Power BI Report from Google Sheets
Learn how you can share your Power BI report with others in the public. Steve shows how his data in Google Sheets is added to Power BI and then made public in a report.
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Detecting Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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