A gentle introduction to dbt
Over the past years, the tool dbt – short for data build tool – has become quite popular in the data engineering world for handling such an ELT process. dbt takes on the role of the “T”, meaning it’s responsible for transforming the data in a certain data store.
Connecting Streamlit to Upload Data to Snowflake
How to create a connection for StreamLit and Snowflake to upload data for visualization
Data Warehouse Considerations - SCD Type 2 vs Overwrite Dimension Tables
How we handle data warehousing updates to dimension tables is crucial and this article covers Slowly Changing Dimensions versus overwriting tables.
The ROI of SQL Prompt
Find your personal ROI in under 1 minute. And see how many working days you and your team could save in coding time with SQL Prompt!
Big Data or Small Data
Today Steve talks about big data sets and whether we really need them, or even enjoy working with them.
Save the date for PASS Summit 2025!
PASS Data Community Summit will return to Seattle next year! Save the date for this incredible in-person event for global data professionals, which will take place at Summit, Seattle Convention Center, from November 17-21, 2025!
Why a Self-Join Requires Halloween Protection
I was asked recently why Halloween Protection was needed for data modification statements that include a self-join of the target table. This gives me a chance to explain, while also covering some interesting product bug history from the SQL Server 7 and 2000 days.
Feed SQL Server logs into SIEM
Keeping track of all the security related logs can be hard. Using your security team to shoulder some of the load can help. Learn how in this article.
Blogs
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
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In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers