2024-03-29
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Articles
What Happens When Multiple Queries Compile at Once?
An interesting question came in on PollGab. DBAmusing asked: If a query takes 5-7s to calculate the execution plan (then executes <500ms) if multiple SPIDS all submit that query (different param values) when there’s no plan at start, does each SPID calc the execution plan, one after the other after waiting for the prior SPID to finish?
2024-03-29
Server Dashboards in Azure Data Studio
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built on Visual Studio Code. I've written a few articles on how the tool works, and this one continues the series. In this article, I want to look at the server and database dashboards and how you can customize them. Another article will cover the Database dashboards. […]
2024-03-28 (first published: 2024-01-29)
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A First Look at SSMS 20
Recently Microsoft released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v20.0, which is a major release of the primary tool that many of us use to work with SQL Server. Over the last few years, the tools team at Microsoft has worked to separate the tools from the various editions, giving us separate SSMS downloads. There have […]
2024-03-27
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Managing Files and Folders with Python – Data Engineering with Fabric
In this article, learn how you can manage files and folders for both full and incremental loading situations.
2024-03-27
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What is Eventstream in Microsoft Fabric? - Part 1
Learn about Eventstream in Microsoft Fabric to ingest, transform, and route real-time data to certain destinations in a low-to-no-code SaaS fashion.
2024-03-27
Quick and Effective Migration Between CosmosDB Collections Using ADF
This document aims to explain the process of using ADF (Azure data Factory) to make a copy of a Cosmos DB (Instance A) collection into a new collection in another Cosmos DB Instance effectively and cost effectively. For example, here is our Instance A in the Data Explorer: Here is Instance B: We are looking […]
2024-03-25
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The Profiler Extension in Azure Data Studio (ADS)
This article covers the basics of the Profiler extension in Azure Data Studio, a handy way to trace your application calls.
2024-03-25 (first published: 2023-12-29)
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Tinkering with Fabric Data Factory Framework Functionality
I recently asked myself, “Self, is it possible to apply framework functionality to Fabric Data Factory?” I decided to investigate.
2024-03-25
How to Optimize Power BI Semantic Model Performance with Vertipaq Analyzer
Learn how to optimize the size of your Power BI semantic models with the free Vertipaq Analyzer tool. Extra tips & tricks included.
2024-03-22
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