How to create a Power BI report using REST API data
In this article, we will learn how to use a REST API from Power BI to get data for a report.
Deploy and Configure Azure SQL Managed Instance
This article covers how to deploy, configure and test the managed instance version of Azure SQL Database using the General-Purpose edition.
New Flyway Course on Redgate University
Flyway Desktop is the newest way to automate database deployments. In this brand new course Kathi Kellenberger provides an overview of DevOps, including definitions, tools, and demos of some of the advanced features available in Flyway Desktop.
Basic Checks on a New AWS RDS SQL Server
When you first become responsible for a new RDS instance, what do you do? Kenneth Igiri gives you a few queries to get you started.
Upgrading SQL Server Central
It's time to look at an instance upgrade for SQL Server Central. Or is it? Steve shares some thoughts about the process and decision making.
Introducing the MySQL DELETE statement
In this article, I focus exclusively on the DELETE statement to help round out our discussion on the core DML statements in MySQL. Overall, the DELETE statement is fairly basic, but one that’s no less necessary to have in your arsenal of DML tools.
Reviewing SQL Migration Files Before a Flyway Migration
This article demonstrates how, once armed with the file path locations of all the scripts, you can use PowerShell to search them for various purposes such to review them for potentially disruptive changes, or run code quality checks, or to verify documentation standards.
Automate Power BI desktop data model with a PowerShell script
Learn how you can use PowerShell to update the Power BI data model.
The Time Thieves
Learning to efficiently manage time in a team is hard. Steve has a few ideas today, based on a book.
Exploring Hive Tables with Spark SQL
In this article, we will look at how to use an Azure Databricks Workspace to explore Hive tables using Spark SQL along with several examples.
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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