I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices (Amazon link), which means I got a copy for free. The book is...
2024-11-20 (first published: 2024-11-19)
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This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if I need it somewhere in the future 🙂 Sometimes you need a numbers table (also...
2024-11-16 (first published: 2024-11-15)
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Praise whatever deity you believe in, because it’s finally here, a tenant switcher for Microsoft Fabric (which includes Power BI). A what? Let me explain. When you have a...
2024-11-15 (first published: 2024-11-14)
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This book was making its rounds on social media, and the concept seems interesting enough to make me want to read it. It’s a very short book (only 106...
2024-11-13 (first published: 2024-11-12)
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I’m hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM UTC. The topic is about window functions, something that really interests me and that should...
2024-11-15 (first published: 2024-10-31)
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The slides and scripts for my session “Tackling the Gaps & Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions” at dataMinds Connect 2024 can be downloaded from GitHub. If you want...
2024-10-10
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Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added as a guest user in another tenant. This happens quite a lot when you’re a...
2024-09-27 (first published: 2024-09-19)
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In Azure Data Factory (ADF, but also Synapse Pipelines and Fabric Pipelines), you have a typical scenario where you retrieve some metadata from a database and then loop over...
2024-06-27
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I wrote a piece of SQL that had some new T-SQL syntax in it: IS DISTINCT FROM. This predicate checks if two expressions are equal taking NULL into account....
2024-06-24
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I’m very excited to announce I’ve been selected as a speaker for dataMinds Connect 2024, Belgium’s (and maybe/probably/most likely mainland Europe’s) best and greatest Microsoft data platform conference. My...
2024-06-17
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This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
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Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Snowflake Level 5...
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers