Or for short, “Why you have to play the game” “Don't tell me the odds”, cried out Han Solo just before doing something that seemed impossible. How on Coruscant did he do that? Well, as a certain director said about a certain floating door in a galaxy we all call home. ”It was in the […]
This article continues my series on ADS and examines the SQL Agent extension.
Steve thinks the DBA job is evolving and we will always need people to manage data.
Learn how to fix replication error the row was not found at the Subscriber when applying the replicated UPDATE command for Table with Primary Key(s).
This next article in the series creates objects at the gold layer for consumption by combining tables from the silver layer of the lake house.
In the first part of this two-part series, I covered the mostly non-technical aspects of building a data culture. While the lion’s share of the work will be getting people to work together and embrace ever deeper use of data, as a reader of Simple-Talk, a lot of this transition will be technical.
Microsoft will be presenting a number of sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit 2023. Read about their plans for the event and register to come if you can.
Today Steve has a few thoughts about some of the nightmare interview processes tech workers are going through.
This article shows how one can run a machine learning activity in an Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipeline.
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I have this data in a SQL Server 2022 table:
player yearid team HR Alex Rodriguez 2012 NYY 18 Alex Rodriguez 2013 NYY 7 Alex Rodriguez 2014 NYY NULL Alex Rodriguez 2015 NYY 12 Alex Rodriguez 2016 NYY 9If I run this code, what are the results returned in the hrgrowth column?
SELECT player , yearid , hr , hr - LAG (hr, 1, 0) IGNORE NULLS OVER (ORDER BY yearid) AS hrgrowth FROM dbo.playerstats;See possible answers