Power BI Designing with Diagrams
In this article learn about how to use the new diagram view along with a schema view in Power BI to make Power Query online editing easier on report designers.
Another look at table variables
Becoming overly enthusiastic about a new SQL Server feature can backfire if you don’t do some testing. One example is the table variable introduced with SQL Server 2000. At the time, there was a myth that table variables would always perform better than temp tables with the reasoning that, by definition, variables are stored in […]
Chaos Engineering in Azure
Chaos engineering is all about breaking your application. Let us see what it is all about and how easy it is in Azure.
The Usefulness of Database Features
The features we want and get in a database platform can make our job easier or harder. Steve has a few thoughts on how they should work.
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Sentiment Analysis with Python
Python is a modern general-purpose programming language that's very useful for analytics. Sanil Mhatre demonstrates sentiment analysis with Python.
A Real World Security Reminder
A reminder today that security in the physical world can affect the digital world.
Using Azure File and Blob Storage with Azure VMs – Step by Step
Learn how to use Azure File and Blob storage with your applications.
Getting started with MySQL
The first step when getting started with MySQL is to get it installed and running. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains how to install it on Windows and create the first database and table.
Moving from ‘Chaotic’ to ‘Managed’ Database Development using Flyway
This article describes a route to adopting Flyway in order to bring management and control to a chaotic database development process. It is based on use of Flyway migrations to update a database from version to version, while maintaining object-level source scripts for tracking changes between versions.
Blogs
Advice I Like: Pyramid Schemes
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
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I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
Forums
Database file shrink issue.
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers