Master the Foundational Basics
It tells us to take the time to master the foundational basics of whatever technology we're working with. If we have mastered the basics in the past, it behooves...
2024-11-13
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Blog Posts
The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not produce a query plan – When You’ve Managed to Confuse SQL With a Crazy IN Clause.
Recently I received a cry for help over Teams. The issue was that an application was throwing up the following SQL error, The query processor ran out of internal...
2024-11-13 (first published: 2024-10-30)
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AI Innovation in Microsoft Keynote
I’m thrilled to be covering the Microsoft Keynote: Fuel AI Innovation with Azure Databases on Day 1 of the PASS Data Community Summit. Data is the driving force behind innovation, powering...
2024-11-12 (first published: 2024-11-06)
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Benefits of Migrating from Azure Synapse Analytics to Microsoft Fabric
Many customers ask me about the advantages of moving from Azure Synapse Analytics to Microsoft Fabric. Here’s a breakdown of the standout features that make Fabric an appealing choice:...
2024-11-12 (first published: 2024-11-06)
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Day 2 at PASS Data Community Summit 2024
I missed blogging yesterday as I was on stage/backstage for quite a bit of the keynote. Live updates, so keep refreshing. Today I’m blogging and noting the interesting things...
2024-11-12 (first published: 2024-11-07)
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Monday Monitor Tips: Tracking The Cost of Instances
One of the things that I’ve been asked in every operations situation is what licenses do we need for our servers. This is a rare request, often once a...
2024-11-12 (first published: 2024-11-11)
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PASS Data Community Summit 2024 Day 3 Keynote
It’s been an amazing week here, as well as a long week. I’m tired, as are many others. The blogging table is a little bare this am, but I...
2024-11-12 (first published: 2024-11-08)
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Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting
The episode on data masking and subetting is out. You can see it here: Youtube Spotify Watch and check this out. This is especially close to my heart as...
2024-11-12
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Thoughts on AI Data Infrastructure Field Day #1
On October 2nd and 3rd, I took part in an amazing event called AI Data Infrastructure Field Day as a delegate. If you’ve never heard of this event before,...
2024-11-12 (first published: 2024-11-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday #180: Avoid Perfect for Good Enough
I'm listening to Effortless by Greg McKeon (link to author's page) through Audible.com. He points out that often times, a quest for perfection means we don't move forward. We...
2024-11-12
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Blogs
Spark Connect Dotnet November 2024 Where are we?
By Ed Elliott
All Spark Connect Posts Introduction There have been quite a few changes in the last...
A New Word: Ochisia
By Steve Jones
ochisia – n. the fear that the role you once occupied in someone’s life...
Create a Numbers Table in Power Query
This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if...
Forums
Writer methods in PowerQuery (LOL)
I'm using PowerQuery in Excel on my desktop. (Yeah, I know you can do...
Need help with GROUP BY...
Here's my data... I am trying to return total days in status for each...
Need help with GROUP BY...
Here's my data... I am trying to return total days in status for each...
Question of the Day
The Density Vector
When building statistics, there is the concept of density that refers to the duplicates in a table. How is this calculated?
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