Hello Rod. Yes, I would prefer Azure Data Studio to Visual Studio Code. This article is oriented to developers who love Visual Studio Code and want to do some T-SQL...

If you use the presentation as it is, it took 5 minutes.

If you want to modify the presentation, it will take longer.

This article was written by me, but, yes with...

Me. Thanks for the feedback.

It is not smart enough yet, but compared with Cortana, Siri, and Alexa, this is by far the smartest robot.

I am really surprised about the progress.

In my opinion, to get data, I would prefer to transform and convert it using a stored procedure or DAX. To extract data, I would use Python, if there are...

It is the same as the Report Builder. SSRS is a Server Service. The Power BI...

This is a great post! I wanted to work on something similar but with different characters/movies - would you share where you sourced the data for your BatmanMovies table?...

It looks like Bale is the favorite one. The movie and Batman are closely related

Microsoft wants to move everything to the Cloud. So, it will push in the future and encourage to move the IT infrastructure to the Cloud. I do not think, they...

SSIS is a little hard to learn for newbies.
This option is easier to learn and execute. I would use SSIS if some data transformations are required.

Last year there were 120K new Azure Subscribers per month, 1.4 million of Azure SQL Databases, 5 million organizations using Azure AD, 4 million developers register with Visual Studio.
The...

You will have errors if the structure change. The same with files with different format.
This article will help with non relational data. We will update the tittle.

By the moment, there are third party solutions, but this may change in the future.

Yes. The basic importation is free.
This tool is in beta version. More complex importation processes will have a cost.

Note that the SSMS 2017 is separated from the SQL Server installer. You can download the SSMS from here. As far as I understand it is not in previous version...