Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory
Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure Data Factory (or Synapse Pipelines). This can be done using a Web Activity, and most...
2025-04-01
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Blog Posts
Distributed Availability Group Dashboard
The Distributed Availability Group Dashboard can be downloaded from our GitHub repo. https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/DAG%20Dashboard.pbix. This comes off of the back of my last post looking at using a distributed availability...
2025-04-01
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Who are you? Building an identity map.
I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?, I had never heard of an identity map. It's a pretty simply thing: mapping all...
2025-04-01
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Comparing My Current Schema with a Backup with SQL Compare
A customer asked if they needed to restore a database from backup to compare the schema in a database. They don’t and this post shows that. This is part...
2025-03-31
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 14: Asynchronous Execution of SQL Statements
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2025-03-31 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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How Do You Pick Events in Extended Events?
A while back I wrote about using AI to explore why people are not using Extended Events. You can read all about it here, but a short summary of...
2025-03-31
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Improving Our Conversations
If we aren't having the same conversation, we aren't going to be heard. That's what Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, covered in the following TED talk:
2025-03-31
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Save Azure PostgreSQL Backup to Storage
This may or may not be helpful in the long term, but since I’m doing it to be super cautious, I figured I would blog about it. We migrated...
2025-03-31 (first published: 2025-03-14)
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A New Word: Zverism
zverism – n. the wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge in the physical side of each other first, sniffing each other’s hair like dogs, staring unabashedly...
2025-03-28
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Can an AI Help Me Find a Job?
I’m not looking for a job, but I ran across an article about using AI tools for a job search. So I decided to try it out. I followed...
2025-03-28 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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Blogs
Who are you? Building an identity map.
By Brian Kelley
I admit that until I read the article, Who are you as a Leader?,...
Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory
Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure...
Distributed Availability Group Dashboard
The Distributed Availability Group Dashboard can be downloaded from our GitHub repo. https://github.com/SQLUndercover/UndercoverToolbox/blob/master/DAG%20Dashboard.pbix. This...
Forums
temp table columns not showing up in CTE
I'm new to the development side of the house and stuck on a CTE...
SSAS Cube Migration to Azure cloud
Dear All, I am currently working on a Proof of Concept (POC) where I...
create a table with data capture for next 3 years
Hello, I would like to build a table capturing data starting from 1st day...
Question of the Day
Local Storage Options
I'm setting up a SQL Server 2019 instance and we are planning on using SMB storage for our database files. However, the file share isn't ready, so the idea is to use the \127.0.0.1dbfile as the location to start and then move these files to the remote server. Can I do this?
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