Advanced Testing of Your PowerShell Code with Pester
Testing your PowerShell scripts is just as important as testing any code. In this article, Robert Cain demonstrates how to use the testing tool, Pester, to perform unit, integration, and acceptance testing.
Loading CSV Files Using Dynamic SQL
In this article, we will see of a quick way to load CSV files from a directory on your computer.
Azure SQL Database High Availability
Site-wide or region-wide disasters, while undoubtedly more impactful, happen considerably less frequently than downtime resulting from scheduled maintenance events or isolated hardware and software faults. This article provides an overview of the high availability features of Azure SQL Database that mitigate risks affecting services within an individual Azure datacenter, rather than an entire Azure region.
Check your default constraints
Default constraints can lead to assumptions about the values in a column. Combine a check constraint to avoid slip ups.
We Need Data Privacy Consistency
Steve talks about the disparate regulations we face for data privacy and protection.
Examples and Function for Using SQL Server LIKE Operator and Wildcard Characters
In this tip we look at different examples of how to use the LIKE operator to get the correct results when strings contain wildcard characters. We will also look a function to make this easier to do.
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T-SQL Tuesday #197 Invitation – An impactful session or two from a conference
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Did You Really Name That Default?
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Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
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Using OPENJSON
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Data Modeling with dbt for Visual Code: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Question of the Day
Using OPENJSON
I have some data in a table that looks like this:
BeerID BeerName brewer beerdescription 1 Becks Interbrew Beck's is a German-style pilsner beer 2 Fat Tire New Belgium Toasty malt, gentle sweetness, flash of fresh hop bitterness. 3 Mac n Jacks Mac & Jack's Brewery This beer erupts with a floral, hoppy taste 4 Alaskan Amber Alaskan Brewing Alaskan Brewing Amber Ale is an "alt" style beer 8 Kirin Kirin Brewing Kirin Ichiban is a Lager-type beerIf I run this, what is returned?
select t1.key
from openjson((select t.* FROM Beer AS t for json path)) t1 See possible answers