Auto assign Column Data Types for Flat file Source Import
A tip to auto detect data types for flat file sources in SSIS. Never manually enter them ever again!
How do you deal with disappointment?
Disappointment is hard, but you get to choose how you react to it.
SQL Server Graph Databases – Part 4: Working with Hierarchical Data in a Graph Database
The Graph Database feature, new with SQL Server 2017, can be used to represent hierarchies. In this article of the series, Robert Sheldon demonstrates how to represent hierarchies in data with complex relationships.
Strange Filtered Index Problem
What I thought was a strange filtered index problem but turned out to be a DB settings problem
Create Azure VMs with PowerShell Part 1
Azure virtual machines are created for many reasons, even just to have an environment to quickly test something out. In this article, Robert Cain demonstrates the first few steps in automating the process with PowerShell. He shows how to gather information needed and set up a resource group, storage and networking needed for the VM.
Power BI Desktop on the Mac
Power Bi is one of the neatest tools that Microsoft has built for data professionals. It allows anyone to build fantastic interactive visualizations that can help tell a story and help someone make decisions. There have been some amazing demo visualizations from Microsoft customers. I've seen a predictive maintenance visualization for airplanes, one for diabetes […]
Setting up SQL Server on Red Hat Linux in AWS - Part 1
In this post, Pinakin Patel looks at the preliminary steps you need to peform to build an instance in AWS to run SQL Server on Red Hat Linux.
Anonymisation Confusion
Steve talks about the difference between anonymisation and pseudonymisation, which can be confusing.
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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