Other Dennes Torres in Other Microsoft Fabric and the Delta Tables Secrets Microsoft Fabric storage uses OneLake and Delta Tables, the core storage of all Fabric objects, as explained in my introduction... 27 September 2023 10 min read
Dennes Torres Microsoft Fabric: Checking and Fixing Tables V-Order Optimization Download the notebook used on this blog I explained in a previous article how the Tables in a lakehouse are... 20 September 2023 5 min read
Dennes Torres Microsoft Fabric: using Notebooks and Table Partitioning to Convert Files to Tables When Microsoft Fabric was born, the only method to convert files to tables was using notebooks. Nowadays we have an... 13 September 2023 5 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other Microsoft Fabric: Loading On-Premises and External Data Loading On-Premises and external data is a fundamental need for a Data Platform such as Microsoft Fabric. However, during this... 28 August 2023 9 min read
Other Louis Davidson in Other Yet Another Reason to Not Use sp_ in SQL Server Object Names In 2012, Aaron Bertrand said most everything I knew (and a bit more) about the issues with using the sp_... 25 August 2023 6 min read
Other Simple Talk Editor in Other How to Write a Technical Blog That Gets Read There is a relatively simple and quickly learned technique to writing a blog that people will want to read. We... 22 August 2023 10 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other Fabric Lakehouse: Convert to Table feature and Workspace Level Spark Configuration I have been working as a no-code data engineer: Focused on Data Factory ETL and visual tools. In fact, I... 21 August 2023 2 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other Discover the Microsoft Fabric Data Wrangler The Data Wrangler is as interesting as hidden inside Microsoft Fabric. It’s not easy to find and activate it, but... 14 August 2023 6 min read
Other Louis Davidson in Other Going to a conference where hardly anybody knows my name On Friday and Saturday August 11 and 12, I am going to do something I haven’t done in a long... 10 August 2023 2 min read
Other Aisha Bukar in Other A Beginners Guide to MySQL Replication Part 4: Using GTID-based Replication Welcome back to another replication series! As a quick reminder, we explored various methods of using MySQL’s replication capabilities in... 08 August 2023 11 min read
Louis Davidson in Other T-SQL Tuesday #165 – My Experience with Database Job Titles They mean very little. More on that after nothing that this is part of T-SQL Tuesday, and you can read... 08 August 2023 7 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other Managing Query Store Hints I wrote about query store hints before when they were first released in Azure SQL databases. However, there are some... 02 August 2023 6 min read
Other Aisha Bukar in Other A Beginners Guide to MySQL Replication Part 3: Multi-Source Replication Welcome back to the world of MySQL Replication! If you’ve been following this series, thank you for your support! And... 18 July 2023 11 min read
Editorials Louis Davidson in Editorials It’s Only Summer, but I am ready for PASS Data Community Summit Now! The PASS Data Community Summit 2023 happens the week of November 12 in Seattle. WA. It will be my first... 13 July 2023 4 min read
Other Louis Davidson in Other What Counts for a DBA – Discretion I was looking at the list of topics I have talked about in my “What Counts for a DBA” posts... 12 July 2023 3 min read
Other Louis Davidson in Other I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP Interviewing yourself is easy, as I get to write the questions as I write the answers! Is this your first... 07 July 2023 5 min read
Other Simple Talk Editor in Other Simple-Talk RSS Feeds Recently, we have made a few changes to the simple-talk.com website’s RSS feeds that I am pretty excited about. If... 07 July 2023 6 min read
Other Louis Davidson in Other On the Road Again, Next Up Columbus January 18, 2020, was the last time I stood in front of a live group of people and spoke about... 27 June 2023 4 min read
Editorials Louis Davidson in Editorials The Value of Adventure One of the things that makes you a well-rounded person is adventure. But often, when one thinks of adventure, they... 25 June 2023 3 min read
Other Simple Talk Editor in Other The Simple-Talk Editor’s Blog Today I am starting (well, restarting) a new feature here on Simple-Talk, The Editor’s Blog. This blog will cover topics about... 14 June 2023 2 min read
