Azure Data Factory is a cloud based data orchestration tool that many ETL developers began using instead of SSIS. In this article, Rodney Landrum recalls a Data Factory project where he had to depend on another service, Azure Logic Apps, to fill in for some lacking functionality.
With the launch of SQL Monitor 11, you can now monitor your SQL Servers hosted on Amazon RDS alongside your on-premises and other cloud-based servers, instances, and databases. Join this webinar on October 28 to discover the benefits of monitoring your entire estate; including on-premises and cloud-hosted databases, from a single pane of glass.
Today we have a guest editorial from Alice Smith as Steve is away. Conflict can be good in a highly functional team, as noted today from the manager of the publishing group at Redgate Software.
Business Intelligence Architect, Analysis Services Maestro, and author Bill Pearson kicks off a series to introduce the DAX financial functions. In this article, he exposes five functions that are popular in the calculation of loans and other annuities. Those accustomed to these functions within Excel will find the syntax, uses and operation of the functions familiar within the Power BI environment.
Until now, organizations wanting to introduce database DevOps have had to rely on – and purchase – different tools and solutions for different databases. A new cross-platform database DevOps solution, Redgate Deploy, changes the rules. Find out why in this latest blog post.
Learn about scalar user defined functions in this next level in the Stairway.
Steve Jones looks a little more closely at the Azure SQL Data Warehouse, perhaps a viable choice for many of us.
Take a look at some of Brent Ozars favourite public presentations, and hear the stories of how they came to be.
Today we have a guest editorial as Steve is out of town at the PASS Summit. Grant looks at disasters and being prepared.
Setting page visibility and the active page are often overlooked last steps when publishing...
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It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this time Todd Kleinhans has a great...
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Recently I was working in VS Code and I saw a walkthrough for the...
I am trying to check out elastic query between two test instances we have...
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