I ran into this quote on the Microsoft Learn site, which I thought was a great way to think about how to administer a system: "Without a baseline, every issue encountered could be considered normal and therefore not require any additional intervention." When I've had users file tickets or complain about things not working well, […]
Introduction In this article, we will talk about a newly introduced activity in Azure Data Factory, which is the fail activity. The fail activity is very useful to stop or fail the pipeline at the specified point. For example, a lookup activity might return no data or a switch activity executes the default block. We […]
Flyway uses a schema history table to track the version of each database, recording in it every versioned migration file applied to build that version. It's worth understanding exactly how Flyway uses this table, the possible dangers of moving it to a non-default location and how to do it safely, if required.
SQL Server provides two ways to include an incrementing number in a table. Greg Larsen explains how to replace an identity column with a sequence number.
Learn about enabling soft-delete for your Azure Storage containers.
Today Steve wonders how many of you really need 256GB of RAM in Standard Edition.
In this article we look at the similarities and differences of SSIS and Azure Data Factory and provide some insight as to when you would use one over the other.
Read what Grant, Steve and Kathi predict will be the biggest challenges for data professionals to overcome this year.
Security is hard, and while data professionals might not be responsible for network issues, we ought to be aware that there could be vulnerabilities that might attack our systems.
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Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
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Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
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Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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