I want to show you how two common operators can deceive you into believing you have constructed a proper SQL statement for your solution. We may want to filter results in a table by using using a IN/NOT IN or a INNER JOIN/LEFT JOIN to another table. There are a couple of hidden dangers here […]
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Availability databases hosted on SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AG) can be connected using a unique Virtual Network Name (VNN), called the Availability Group Listener. When an Availability Group is enabled, clients can connect to databases in both primary and secondary replicas without explicitly specifying the SQL Server instance name. You don’t even need […]
Whether you work as a Data Engineer or a Data Scientist, a Jupyter Notebook is a helpful tool. One of the projects I was working required a comparison of two parquet files. This is mainly a schema comparison, not a data comparison. Though the two .parquet were created from two different sources, the outcome should […]
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Of all the valuable attributes of a DBA, from passion to humility to practicality, perhaps one of the most important attributes may turn out to be the most seemingly nebulous: foresight. According to Free Dictionary, foresight is the "perception of the significance and nature of events before they have occurred". Foresight does not come naturally to most people, as the […]
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