A New Word: desanté
desanté – n. the brooding delirium of being sick, which makes time slow to a trickly and turns even the most pathetic of tasks into monumental struggles, until the...
2024-05-31
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Blog Posts
Denver Dev Day – Best Practices for Database Deployments Resources
I delivered a talk today on database deployment best practices at the Denver Dev Days 2024. This is a great event, and I have been lucky enough to attend...
2024-05-31
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Friday Basics: RPO and RTO
I did a post last month titled RTO and RPO are myths unless you've tested recovery, but I only briefly covered what RPO and RTO are. This post goes...
2024-05-31 (first published: 2024-05-10)
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T-SQL Tuesday #174: Your Favorite Job Interview Question
My blog has been quiet lately. I recently wrapped up a master’s program (more details on that soon, once the formal graduation is behind me) and have been immersed...
2024-05-31 (first published: 2024-05-14)
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Full-Text Search in SQL Server: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction Full-Text Search in SQL Server is a feature that provides linguistic search capabilities against text data in SQL Server tables. It allows for searching of character-based data types...
2024-05-29 (first published: 2024-05-13)
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I like KQL and I like managing my test data – are they mates?
Test Data Management (TDM) is essential in software development to ensure your application runs smoothly and reliably across different environments. When deploying applications in Azure, Test Data Management can...
2024-05-29 (first published: 2024-05-13)
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What happens when we drop a column on a SQL Server table? Where's my space?
This article was initially posted on SQLServerCentral @ 2024-04-26.
Short answer: The column is marked as ‘deleted’ and will stop being visible/usable.
But, most importantly - The record/table size will remain...
2024-05-29
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Planview Portfolios REST API with ADF – Fetching the Access Token
In the introduction of this blog post series, I explained the use case: extracting data from the Planview Portfolios RESET API using Azure Data Factory. Any tool that can...
2024-05-28 (first published: 2024-05-26)
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Planview Portfolios REST API with ADF – The OData Feed
In the introduction, I explained the setup of the use case and why we need to use the OData feed: to get the list of Project IDs, because the...
2024-05-28 (first published: 2024-05-26)
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Dynamically Unpivot columns in SQL
Picture this, your data ingestion team has created a table that has the sales for each month year split into different columns. At first glance, you may think “what’s...
2024-05-27 (first published: 2024-05-10)
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Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Reading
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
Book Review – Agile Data Warehouse Design
I recently read the book Agile Data Warehouse Design – Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from...
My 2024 in Data: Speaking
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
Forums
Need ADF pipeline suggestion to copy 1 million files
I have an ADF pipeline that copies Files from source to destination. Both Source...
Function Defaults
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Question of the Day
Function Defaults
I have created this function in SQL Server 2022:
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.AddInt (@one INT, @two INT = 1) RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
RETURN @one + @two
END
How can I call this and invoke the default value for @two? See possible answers