Running a bit late this month for T-SQL Tuesday (it’s not exactly Tuesday is it!) but that’s Grant Fritchey’s (blog|twitter) ... Continue reading
2023-10-04 (first published: 2023-09-14)
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I’m heading to Boston next week for SQL Saturday Boston 2023. I went to this event last year and I’m glad to be going again. It’s a great event,...
2023-10-03
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Last week we discussed advantages of recompilation in Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 2. This week in this article Common Mistakes in SQL Server - Part 3 I...
2023-10-02
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Introduction
Power Query is a versatile tool found in both Power BI and Excel, facilitating data transformation and manipulation. Despite its efficiency in numerous data tasks, managing decimal values can...
2023-10-02 (first published: 2023-09-07)
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Microsoft SQL Server, like most modern database systems, can convert a query into a set of parallel instructions to improve efficiency. This is map-reduce before map-reduce was a popular...
2023-10-02 (first published: 2023-09-06)
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While working with WordPress and MySQL databases, users might occasionally encounter import errors during site migration. These errors may compromise the integrity of the database and disrupt the site’s...
2023-10-02
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I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Boston on October 14th, 2023. This year’s session is Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation
As DBAs, we’re...
2023-10-02
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ghough – n. a hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled; a bottomless hunger for more food, more praise, more attention, more affection, more job, more...
2023-09-29
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Working with various Flyway configuration options used to be a pain since they were either CLI parameters or in a text files. We’ve made editing these easier in Flyway...
2023-09-29 (first published: 2023-08-25)
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I found myself in a situation where I needed to modify temporal tables. We do this outside business hours because we don’t want clients changing data while versioning is...
2023-09-29 (first published: 2023-09-05)
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By Ed Elliott
All Spark Connect Posts Introduction There have been quite a few changes in the last...
By Steve Jones
ochisia – n. the fear that the role you once occupied in someone’s life...
This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if...
I'm using PowerQuery in Excel on my desktop. (Yeah, I know you can do...
Here's my data... I am trying to return total days in status for each...
Here's my data... I am trying to return total days in status for each...
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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