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(2024-Mar-16) I have been a big fan of using the Excel application for various tasks for more than half of my life. I believe it's the most widely used spreadsheet...
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(2023-Oct-15) When something important disappears, it's natural to start asking questions and looking for answers, especially when that missing piece has had a significant impact on your life.Similarly, when data...
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(2023-July-15) Let's say you have a collection of Power BI .pbix files stored in a git-based source control system (GitHub, Azure DevOps, or any other system). Among these files, one...
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(2023-Apr-25) It’s not hard to see that many different teams were involved in building Azure Data Factory (ADF) product at Microsoft. It doesn’t have conformed constraints for naming the objects...
2023-05-03 (first published: 2023-04-25)
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(2023-Apr-10) Yes, Azure Data Factory (ADF) can be used to access and process REST API datasets by retrieving data from web-based applications.To use ADF for this purpose, you can simply...
2023-04-19 (first published: 2023-04-10)
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(2023-Feb-20) The previous posts covered the following areas of Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory:Part 1 - Data CopyPart 2 - Feed ConfigurationPart 3 - Column MetadataThese 3 areas suggested that it is...
2023-03-01 (first published: 2023-02-20)
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By James Serra
There are three Azure SQL products with so many different deployment options, service tiers,...
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions....
By Steve Jones
I was asked to do some a little thinking and brainstorming recently. Rather than...
Hi, Does anyone have experience with MEMORYBROKER_FOR_RESERVE ? when suddenly there is somehow constantly...
I just learned that my database was created on my C:\ drive in the...
I am needing to migrate a MSSQL db to MySQL, on a different server...
I have a complex database with a few filegroups and files. Can I run a backup command like this? (assume file/filegroup names are valid).
BACKUP DATABASE [complex]
FILE = N'thirdone'
, FILE = N'thirdtwo'
, FILEGROUP = N'second'
TO DISK = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQL2022\MSSQL\Backup\complex.bak'
WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'complex-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
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