Loading data in Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Data Factory
This article shows a basic Azure Data Factory pipeline to load data into Azure Synapse.
2020-07-20
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Articles
Getting Started with GitFlow
In this article, Diogo Souza explains GitFlow, a branching model for Git. He demonstrates how to work with GitFlow to create and deploy a feature and a hotfix to GitHub.
2020-07-20
Power BI Incremental Refresh for SQL Sources
In this article we look at the incremental refresh feature when working with Power BI data sources and how to implement for your reports.
2020-07-20
Replicate NetSuite Data to Azure SQL (SSIS in Azure Data Factory)
With Azure Data Factory V2 Integration Runtimes (ADFv2 IR), you can deploy enterprise replication tasks to the Azure cloud.
2020-07-17 (first published: 2019-01-02)
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6 New Courses Published on the Redgate University
Master the fundamentals of Redgate products with easy to follow video courses on Redgate University. This month 6 new courses have been published to help you advance your skills including courses on SQL Prompt, SQL Monitor, SQL Change Automation, SQL Compare, and Database DevOps for Oracle. All brought to you by some amazing presenters like Kendra Little, Grant Fritchey, Kathi Kellenberger and the Redgate team of experts. Start learning now!
2020-07-17
Hands-On with Columnstore Indexes: Part 2 Best Practices and Guidelines
In the second article of this series, Edward Pollack demonstrates some ways to design and populate a columnstore index to get even better performance.
2020-07-17
2020-07-16
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Automate Responses to Bad Deployments with SQL Monitor
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2020-07-16
Install SQL Server Integration Services in Visual Studio 2019
Learn the step by step process to install SQL Server 2019 Integration Services in Visual Studio as well as the history for the tool.
2020-07-16
Heaps in SQL Server: Part 2 Optimizing Reads
In the second article of this series, Uwe Ricken discusses ways to affect the performance of queries involving heaps, including the TOP operator, compression, and partitioning.
2020-07-15
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Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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