In my previous post, I showed how to borrow a snake draft concept from fantasy football, or a packing technique from the shipping industry, to distribute different portions of a workload to run in parallel.
2024-05-06
In this article, we look at how to setup different ways to handle pipeline failures and notifications when working with Azure and Azure Data Factory.
2024-05-03
I recently had a restore job where I needed to split the work up into multiple parallel processes (which I’ll refer to here as “threads”). I wanted to balance the work so that the duration was something significantly less than the sum of the restore times
2024-05-01
Learn how to use different Spark SQL string functions to manipulate string data with explanations and code examples.
2024-04-29
In this article, I will discuss the history and thinking behind several types of logic that are typically associated with writing relational database code.
2024-04-26
Sometimes when you do GROUP BY, the order of the columns does matter. For example, these two SELECT queries produce different results:
2024-04-24
Container orchestration has become a cornerstone of modern application deployment. For beginners stepping into the world of modern application deployment and orchestration, understanding the essence and significance of Kubernetes is essential.
2024-04-22
Pagination is a technique for limiting output. Think of Google search results, shopping the electronics category on Amazon, or browsing tagged questions on Stack Overflow. Nobody could consume all of the results in a single shot, and no site wants to spend the resources required to present them all to us
2024-04-19
If you haven’t migrated your workloads to a managed database platform yet, you’re probably still relying on SQL Server Agent for various maintenance and other scheduled tasks. Most of the time, these processes just work. But when it’s time to troubleshoot, it can be cumbersome to get to the root of some problems.
2024-04-17
This week’s query exercise asked you to find two kinds of locations in the Stack Overflow database.
2024-04-15
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