Why Not Use AI?
Steve re-posts a question from someone else, asking why you wouldn't want to use an AI.
Why use Tally Tables in the Fabric Warehouse? Data Engineering in Fabric
This next article in the Data Engineering with Fabric series showcases how tally tables can help load data in a Fabric warehouse.
Engineering a Lakehouse with Azure Databricks with Spark Dataframes
How can we get familiar with Azure Databricks with Spark Dataframes?
How to use the Azure Emulator to create blob containers, queues and tables
Learn how to emulate Azure storage for files, blogs, and queues.
What If You Need to Index a Lot of Duplicate Data?
Let’s get a little nerdy and look at database internals.
Triggers
Triggers. Who doesn’t like a good, lively debate about triggers? With the extreme cold that we’ve experienced this past week in the northeastern U.S., I feel like a little heated debate wouldn’t be a bad way to forget about the cold. But alas, I’m not here to talk about database triggers. Sorry, we’ll have to […]
Configuring Maintenance Plans in SQL Server
See a walkthrough of setting up a maintenance plan in SQL Server.
Moving On After a Technology Fail
After his watch broke, Steve had to get a new tool and isn't sure it was a good move.
Upgrade and Migrate SSIS Catalog and SSISDB to a New Server
There will come as time when you need to upgrade the host operating system and SQL Server to a newer version. If you are using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), one of the things you may need to do is to move the SSIS catalog (SSISDB database) to the new server. We will cover the steps in this tutorial to migrate the SSISDB from one server to another.
Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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Creating JSON II
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( N'City':N'Denver' RETURNING JSON) GOSee possible answers