Getting Started with Azure Purview for Data Governance
In this article we will explore how to get started with Azure Purview and then explore some of the features within Purview Studio.
What Counts For a DBA: Ego
Leaving aside, for a second, Freud’s psychoanalytical definitions, the term “ego” generally refers to a person’s sense of self, and their self-esteem. In casual usage, however, it usually appears in the adjectival form, “egotistical” (most often followed by “jerk”). You don’t need to be a jerk to be a DBA; humility is important. However, ego is important […]
PostgreSQL HAVING,LIMIT and FETCH Clauses
Overview In this article, we will cover these PostgreSQL clauses with examples: HAVING, LIMIT and FETCH. In a previous article we discussed the WHERE, ORDER BY and GROUP BY clauses. Click the link if you wish to learn about those clauses. HAVING Clause The HAVING clause works on grouped data returned by a GROUP BY. […]
Your Permanent Record
Today we have a guest editorial from Tim Mitchell. Tim talks about the impact of your posts online against the impression you make, or want to make, with potential employers.
Opening JSON Data with T-SQL
The T-SQL code samples in this tip illustrate ways of displaying JSON formatted data in SQL Server as well as how to transfer JSON formatted data to SQL Server tables.
Running SQL Clone on an Azure VM with Azure File Storage
How to use SQL Clone in the Azure Cloud, installing it on an Azure Virtual Machine, storing a copy of your SQL Server database as an 'image' on an Azure File Share, and then deploying multiple clones to another Azure VM or to a remote machine.
PolyBase scale-out group in Azure for free
create a sql server polybase scale out group in azure for free
Work/Training Balance - The hidden balancing act
Should we be considering our Work/Training Balance as part of our careers?
Notify Users of Power BI Dataset Changes
In this article we cover the steps on how to send notifications to business users when a change in a dataset used for Power BI has occurred.
Who is responsible for building tests?
When you begin to automate your deployments, you’re also going to start automating your testing. After all, a deployment, in and of itself, is a test. However, you'll pretty quickly come to the question: who is responsible for building tests?
Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
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I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Forums
Warning: Could not open global shared memory to communicate with performance DLL
Hi everyone I am getting below warning when I run SSIS: Warning: 0x80049304 at...
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that one limitation in replication
Hi as shown below a replication target requires a primary key. if we want...
Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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