Rob Farley discusses some solutions and gotchas for implementing a custom sort using ORDER BY in T-SQL queries.
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at how we might divvy up our workload in a company.
It is worth getting familiar with Apache Spark because it a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing and you can use you existing SQL skills to get going with analysis of the type and volume of semi-structured data that would be awkward for a relational database. With an IDE such as Databricks you can very quickly get hands-on experience with an interesting technology.
Receiving an access denied error message when trying to connect to a remote instance of SSIS from SSMS? Sadequl Hussain provides the solution.
Does your database development process prevent changes in your software? You shouldn't be held hostage by your database.
To finish off our look at the core database objects, we inspect how the venerable stored procedure works in U-SQL.
Power BI Desktop continues to evolve. There have been many improvements to the reporting side that together make it easier to get from the data to the visualisation as quickly as possible. You can now create line charts that let users drill down into hierarchical data. There are now ways of adding dynamic reference lines to a visualization that provide users with relevant reference points. Robert Sheldon demonstrates how to combine these features to great effect.
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