Create Azure DevOps Analytics Visuals with Power BI OData Queries
This article focuses on the use of OData Queries to integrate DevOps Analytics data to Power BI.
Gitflow Workflow Feature Branching for SQL Database Projects
Learn how to use Gitflow workflow to meet the needs of developing new database related features and how to deploy these database changes.
How to Grow In Your Career
Today Steve Jones gives you ideas on how to keep learning and growing your career.
How to Batch Updates A Few Thousand Rows at a Time
In this post, Brent explains how to use a combination of two separate topics that he has blogged about recently.
Multiple Regression Model Enhanced with Bagging
This article explains what bagging is relative to a basic decision tree model and demonstrates how to apply bagging for better multiple regression model fits to data from SQL Server.
Mathematicians and SQL
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor is considered the creator of set theory, and his theories are the basis for the naïve set theory you learned in school. But there are lots of other mathematicians you should know, such as Hilbert, Frege, Russell, Zermelo and Dedekind. They made a lot of contributions, too. Hilbert Hilbert is […]
DAX financial functions: Depreciation calculations
Business Intelligence Architect, Analysis Services Maestro, and author Bill Pearson continues his series surrounding the DAX financial functions. In this article, he exposes four functions that are popular in the calculation of depreciation and amortization. Those accustomed to these functions within Excel will find the syntax, uses and operation of the functions familiar within the Power BI environment.
Ten Reasons your SQL Server Monitoring will Scale
This article explains ten ways that SQL Monitor tackles the problem of scaling out the coverage of a single, lightweight monitoring system, and so allows your teams to maintain the health and performance of larger collections of databases and higher numbers of monitored SQL servers.
Default Credentials
Using default credentials is a poor practice, but people still continue to forget to change them.
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The Long Name
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Question of the Day
The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?