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Vendors/3rd Party Products

Customizing Database Deployments using Flyway Callbacks and Placeholders

How to customize a database deployment process using Flyway, demonstrating how to incorporate tasks such stamping a version number into the latest database build, or writing to the SQL Server log.

AI/Machine Learning/Cognitive Services

Forecasting Demand with Azure Machine Learning

Who can use forecasting? The goal of forecasting,...

Analysis Services / BI on the MS Stack

Introducing DAX.do

DAX.do is a new website by SQLBI where you can wri...

Azure Databricks, Spark and Snowflake

Azure Data Factory Activity Failures and Pipeline Outcomes

Question: When an activity in a Data Factory pipel...

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database Gen4 to Gen 5

For the past year Microsoft have said that Generat...

Community Interests

Announcing the Azure Data Community from Microsoft

You can see an announcement from Buck Woody (b | t) of Microsoft on Data Exposed. Essentially, Microsoft is providing a number of free resources to help local user... The...

DMO/SMO/Powershell

Create a Polling Loop in PowerShell

This is one way to create a polling loop in PowerS...

PowerShell editors and environments: Part 1

There is no shortage of PowerShell editors and environments for developing and running scripts. Greg Moore explains some of his favorites.

Data Privacy, Compliance, and GDPR

Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design

Citibank was trying to make $7.8M in interest paym...

Virginia Data Privacy Law

Virginia is about to get a data privacy law, model...

DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Key insights from the 2021 State of Database DevOps survey

This is the fifth year that Redgate has surveyed I...

Architecting Database Dev and Test Environments: Best Practices and Anti-Patterns for SQL Server

Many organizations use out-of-date architecture pa...

Recruiting DBAs for DevOps

DBAs are in great demand, but what if you are recruiting a DBA for DevOps? Mike Cuppett explains how to hire and train the right DBA for the job.

Excel

How to protect Excel using PowerShell?

Last month we have been hiding things in Excel, so...

HA/DR/Always On/Clustering

Introduction to Corruption Slide Deck

The attached PDF is the slide deck for my Introduction to Corruption presentation from Feb 17th 2021. I hope you enjoyed the session. The post Introduction to Corruption Slide Deck...

Oracle

Learning A Little Oracle

As part of my job, I’ve been tasked with doing s...

Performance Tuning SQL Server

Manually updating Statistics

Having up to date statistics is vital for getting ...

SQL Index Creation Using DROP EXISTING= ON

When you are making changes to an existing Non-Clu...

Reconsidering Missing Index Requests

Milk Carton Part of reviewing any server necessarily includes reviewing indexes. When you’re working through things that matter, like unused indexes, duplicative indexes, heaps, etc. it’s pretty clear cut...

How does the buffer pool handle low memory conditions?

(Thanks to Erik Darling for reviewing this post. Check out his training materials.) One of the bigger clichés in the data professional vocabulary (behind “it depends”) is that you...

PowerPivot/PowerQuery/PowerBI

Dataflow: a remedy slow data sources in Power BI

I have previously explained a number of use cases ...

Working with Slowly Changing Dimensions in Power BI

Do you have slowly changing dimensions in your Pow...

R Language

Little useless-useful R functions – Using L-Systems for useless writing

Writing useless strings has been a focus of this series, and L-Systems (Lindenmayer Systems) are no different. It is a set or a string of characters that is rewritten...

T-SQL

How to Write a Query with Multiple Behaviors

Guy Glanster explores the multiple behaviors of qu...

Function (and SQL Prompt Snippet) To Get Next Date By Day Name/Offset

As I have been building my Twitter management soft...

Tech News

What to expect from the dramatic Mars Perseverance landing on Thursday

This mission brings a lot of new hardware and scie...

The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore

Chrome OS's rise in market share has been swift an...

The Lighter Side

An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later

Back in our day, memes didn't benefit from central...

 
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