Correlation Analysis using Correlation Plot in Power BI Desktop
Power BI provides correlation plot visualization in the Power BI Visuals Gallery to create Correlation Plots for correlation analysis. In this post, Siddharth Mehta shows how to create a correlation plot in Power BI Desktop using a sample dataset of car performance.
Book Review: Database Reliability Engineering by Campbell & Majors
Brent Ozar explains why DBAs should read this book about the future of database administration at scale.
A Christmas Bug
A bug in American Airlines scheduling could impact travelers, but certainly will impact their bottom line.
The Appearance of the Flat File Wizard.
After many barren years, Phil Factor is pleased to see the first signs of Spring in SSMS.
Importing JSON Data from Web Services and Applications into SQL Server
To support many applications, it makes sense for the database to work with JSON data, because it is the built-in way for a JavaScript or TypeScript application to represent object data. It can mean less network traffic, looser coupling, and less need for the application developer to require full access to the base tables of the database. However, it means that the database must do plenty of checks first before importing. Phil Factor explains how it can be easily done.
Even More SQL Server Features that Time Forgot
SQL Server works well, and Microsoft does everything it can to keep it relevant and competitive: As with everything in real life, it doesn't don't always get it completely right, and Rob Sheldon continues his quest through the jungle of past features to rediscover and explore the ones that time forgot. Here, he comes across Lightweight Pooling, XML Indexes, Stretch Databases, SQL Variants, Transaction Savepoints and In-Memory OLTP.
Certifying Schools
Schools don't necessarily teach people how to code, but they could do a better job.
Free Database Unit-Testing Framework for SQL Server
Learn how to implement an advanced and cost-effective database unit-testing framework with tSQLt in SQL Server Management Studio.
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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