Microsoft SQL announcements at PASS Data Community Summit 2024
Read a summary of the data platform announcements from Microsoft at the PASS Data Community Summit 2024 last week.
2024-11-18
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Articles
Explore Pandas in Python to Analyze and Manipulate Tabular Data
Learn how to use Pandas an open-source library for analyzing and manipulating tabular data in Python along with several examples.
2024-11-18
The Right and Wrong of T-SQL DML TRIGGERs (SQL Spackle)
Triggers in T-SQL have many uses. There are right and wrong ways to write triggers. To learn the difference, read on...
2024-11-15 (first published: 2015-03-17)
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Making Temporal Databases Work, Part 3: Saving Data
In part three of this series, Boris Novikov looks at how data is saved and modified in a temporal database and what kind of integrity constraints are needed for temporal tables. If you haven’t seen parts one and two, don’t worry! Links are provided in the article, and we recommend checking them out first.
2024-11-15
Ingesting Data From REST API endpoints: Data Engineering with Fabric
In this article on Fabric we will examine how to get data from a REST API.
2024-11-13
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Relationships with Microsoft Fabric GraphQL API
Learn how to join tables together when using the GraphQL API with Microsoft Fabric in this step-by-step article.
2024-11-13
A Tidy Database is a Fast Database: Why Index Management Matters
Learn about the ways in which you might better manage indexes for a better performing and efficient database.
2024-11-11
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How Many Indexes Is Too Many?
Let’s start with the Stack Overflow database (any size will work), drop all the indexes on the Users table, and run a delete:
2024-11-11
Step by step guide to setup PostgreSQL on Docker
Learn how to get started with PostgreSQL using a container to practice database skills.
2024-11-08
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How To Embed Your Azure Logic Apps in a Metadata-driven Data Platform
In this article, I am going to explain how you can dial your productivity up to 11 when you’re dealing with a lot of Azure Logic Apps in your data platform.
2024-11-08
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers