A Q&A with Troy Hunt: What will you learn?
We really enjoyed the insightful, intelligent answers Troy gave to Steve Jones’s questions and invite you to enjoy the fascinating conversation in the webinar which is now available on-demand.
2021-11-26
Articles
Power BI CONCATENATE Function: How and When to Use it
In this article we cover various ways join and concatenate data in Power BI by using the DAX CONCATENATE function.
2021-11-26
Tracking SQL Server Configuration Across All Your Servers Using SQL Monitor
The Estate Configuration reports SQL Server configuration across all your servers, so you can quickly investigate ad-hoc or unauthorized changes to any settings that might affect their performance, stability, or security.
2021-11-24
Using Power Apps Patch Function with SQL Server
In this article we look at how to create a basic Power App that allows saving data to a database table.
2021-11-24
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns
An "old" subject is revisted where "newbies" can learn the methods and veteran users can get more performance out of the code.
2021-11-23 (first published: 2008-08-19)
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A Comparison of Database Drivers for MySQL
MySQL is "The world's most popular open source database" and it is widely-used to store and access your data. In fact, there are many cloud and on-premise databases (like MemSQL and Google Cloud SQL) that use the MySQL interface. Several native, open-source drivers are available for connecting to your MySQL data from other applications. In […]
2021-11-22
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Working with an Azure Data Factory Meta-data Driven Pipeline
This article shows how to create a data driven ADF pipeline.
2021-11-22
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Learn how to use Flyway for Automated Database Migrations
Here's your one-stop-shop for Flyway learning resources, curated by Tony Davis. Check out this handy learning pathway for managing and automating database deployments, from version control, using Flyway.
2021-11-22
Ransomware: A world under threat
Ransomware has threatened many organizations over the past few years. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains the history of ransomware and what needs to be done to protect against it.
2021-11-22
SQLFacts - A Free Toolkit for SQL Server Database Engineers
SQLFacts is a FREE suite of 26 (and counting) tools for SQL Server database development, database administration, and performance tuning. The toolkit is all T-SQL code and it includes the functionality of hundreds of short scripts.
2021-11-19
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Using Outer Joins
I have this data in a SQL Server 2019 database:
Customer table CustomerID CustomerName 1 Steve 2 Andy 3 Brian 4 Allen 5 Devin 6 Sally OrderHeader table OrderID CustomerID OrderDate 1 1 2024-02-01 2 1 2024-03-01 3 3 2024-04-01 4 4 2024-05-01 6 4 2024-05-01 7 3 2024-06-07 8 2 2024-04-07I want a list of all customers and their order counts for a period of time, including zero orders. If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT c.CustomerName, COUNT(oh.OrderID) FROM dbo.Customer AS c LEFT JOIN dbo.OrderHeader AS oh ON oh.CustomerID = c.CustomerID WHERE oh.Orderdate > '2024/04/01' GROUP BY c.CustomerNameSee possible answers