Create Raw Zone Tables using Generative AI: Data Engineering with Fabric
In this next article we look at how to use Generative AI to build tables.
Database DevOps Metrics
DevOps includes the idea of measuring how code flows through your organization and looking for ways to improve your software development process. Steve has a few thoughts on the four main metrics many developments use.
Scales & Measurements
If you’re going to work with databases, you probably ought to know something about data. In particular, we don’t put data directly into a database; we have to encode it and represent it in a format which a machine can handle.
DeepSeek: What is new with this AI technology?
Learn how the DeepSeek GenAI LLM works and see how it produces SQL code.
Is GenAI Coming Faster Than You Think?
GenAI technologies have created a lot of concern among many tech workers. Steve has a few thoughts on how these technologies might impact data professionals.
Finding Out What Changed in a Cumulative Update
Over the last several years, Microsoft has been putting less and less effort into Cumulative Update documentation. We used to get full-blown knowledge base articles about fixes, but these days, we get a collection of footnotes with deceiving hyperlinks that look like they’re going to lead to more information – but they simply lead back to themselves.
Fantasy baseball and old habits
Old habits are hard to change sometimes. Time and again, regardless of what the task or query for information might be, my go-to source of information is Google. Whether on my phone or computer, my muscle memory instinctively opens a browser window or clicks into the search widget and starts typing. My “google foo” has […]
Implementing Fuzzy Search in SQL Server Using New Inbuilt Functions
Learn about the new string similarity functions in Azure SQL Database.
The Inefficiencies of Kubernetes
Kubernetes hasn't proved to be as useful to many companies as they expected.
Basic Regex Emulator for SQL Server
Regular expressions (REGEX) let you adaptively investigate, employ, and authenticate text data. This makes it easy to search for simple or complex string patters. There is no direct way to do this in SQL Server, but in this article we look at some SQL functions you can create to emulate regex like functionality.
Blogs
The Cost of Not Having a DBA
By Kevin3NF
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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...
Forums
Select Returning Blank Rows
I have the following select statement --#1 Select supplier, s.refnum, desc from supplier as...
How to update a history table with changes.
Good morning to all. I am a novice when it comes to SQL so...
How to check if credential password for TDE matches the secret key of Key Vault
Hi all, In my company we have many databases encrypted with TDE and there...
Question of the Day
Replacing a NULL II
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2022?
DECLARE @value INT = NULL , @value2 VARCHAR(20) = NULL; SELECT COALESCE (@value, @value2, 100.5) AS Result; GOSee possible answers