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?
Implement Azure SQL Elastic Jobs with PowerShell
In this article, I will work you through the process of creating elastic jobs in Azure using PowerShell. The elastic jobs are similar to regular agents jobs in SQL Server although they add extra functionality like for example dedicated target groups that can be used in the job step level. Currently, the elastic jobs are […]
Lots of Data and AI Helping Firefighters
Using AI/ML to help process large amounts of data allows us to tackle problems that we might not otherwise be able to work on.
How DevOps can enable the evolving insurance landscape
The insurance landscape is evolving, and customer demands are far from where they used to be, with some of the biggest changes happening in the last year. James Boother from COEO covers how database DevOps can enable the evolving insurance landscape.
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Quick Tip: Check Most DTU Expensive Queries in Azure SQL Database
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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