I wrote about Managed Identity Secrets a few weeks ago, but since that article was published I made new interesting discoveries to add more to these secrets. The combination of possibilities is considerable, and I faced two new situations I hadn’t faced before. Let’s discover the new secrets. Storage Accounts and Triggers The storage … Read more
CETAS is the acronym for Create External Table As Select. This allow us to export the result of a select to an external table in different formats, such as PARQUET or CSV. We can also convert the format from one external table to another. The SELECT used on the CETAS can be an external table … Read more
Auto-Create statistics is a well-known feature critical for the database performance. When one statistic is auto created, changing the table structure is not blocked by the presence of the statistic. An auto-created statistics is also dropped automatically when a schema change happens. On the other hand, if the statistic is created by the user, any … Read more
I wrote an article about Power BI Datamarts which was released together the feature, on the exact moment it was being announced in a conference. Of course, this feature has being evolved since that time. I would emphasize the performance. The general UI performance seems way better than when it was first released. Let’s talk … Read more
In this article, I want to talk about a topic that you may never need. The only time I have really had need to look at the bits in a byte pattern. In (what is now) ancient versions of SQL Server didn't have such self-describing columns like in its metadata objects like it does now.… Read more
In this blog, we compare two of the most popular types of backups in MySQL - backups of a physical and logical nature. Curious what they are and how they work? You've come to the right place.… Read more
SQL Server 2022 is finally GA and one of the features I was most expecting is finally available. It’s the allows Azure AD Authentication. Azure AD users can access SQL Server directly, without a second user account. SQL Server on premises requires Azure ARC to be integrated to Azure. Azure VMs, on the other hand, … Read more
As our team and countless others prepare to head off to the PASS Data Community Summit; We want to share some of the reasons why PASS has been so important to us through the years.… Read more
In order to test graph structures, I needed a large set of random data. In some ways, this data will resemble the IMDB database I will include later in this chapter, but to make it one, controllable in size and two, random, I created this random dataset. I loaded a set of values for an … Read more
Despite my recent job change from full time T-SQL code jockey/architect to website editor for Simple-Talk, I will always be at heart at T-SQL programmer. While I will mostly be writing professionally in the foreseeable future will in support of an article, I will also continue writing code for several databases that I use for … Read more
Synapse is a great data lake house tool. This means in a single tool we have resources to manage a data lake and data warehouse. The Synapse Serverless Pool is great to manage data lakes and for a great price: around us$ 5,00 for each TB of data queried. This makes it a great choice. … Read more
“ A new adventure, there in your eyes. It’s just beginning, Feel your heart beat faster. Reach out and find your Happily ever after! “ Well, here I am. My first new job in over 20 years and it is a dream come true. I have always wanted to do more to help people learn … Read more
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