Last Friday I appeared in the middle of a Brazilian Twitch live made by a friend and while they were talking and studying, I provided some links full of content to them. Nowadays, there are a lot of free content on internet. Not only free content, but also content well organized in a good sequence … Read more
Or: How to make magic tricks with T-SQL Starting our magic show, let’s first set the stage: Count Distinct doesn’t work with Window Partition Preparing the example In order to reach the conclusion above and solve it, let’s first build a scenario. Using Azure SQL Database, we can create a sample database called AdventureWorksLT, a … Read more
Until now, one common knowledge about Power BI was how Power BI Premium subscription is expensive. We, regular mortals, could only dream with the full set of features offered by Power BI Premium. The new announcement is a complete game changing for the enterprise self-service BI technology: Power BI Premium per User will be available … Read more
Azure Functions are a great development tool, allowing us to create serverless software. However, one detail was bothering me when I create a function: The HTTP Trigger receives a HTTPRequest object and we need to extract the parameters from the request. This becomes kind of a low-level code mixed with our business code. It’s like going … Read more
Azure SQL has a close relationship with Azure Storage. Features like Polybase, backups, extended events and more make use of Azure Storage. On Azure SQL Database, probably the most common use is Extended Events. When we create a file target, we need to point to the Azure Storage URL where the file will be stored. … Read more
Data Lakes are becoming more usual every day and the need for tools to query them also increases. While writing about querying a data lake using Synapse, I stumbled upon a Power BI feature I didn’t know was there. When reading from a data lake, each folder is like a table. We store in the … Read more
Fifty years after starting the 'Art of Computer Programming', (TAOCP), Don Knuth is still working hard at the project. He has almost completed the first five volumes. It is considered amongst the "hundred or so books that shaped a century of science". Richard Morris asks him how things are going, and to find out more about his many achievements. … Read more
PowerShell has radically improved the ease of monitoring and adminstering Windows-based servers, and automating routine processes. The visionary leader of this project is Jeffery Snover, who is now Lead Architect for both Windows Server and System Center Datacenter. … Read more
With the arrival of F# 3.0 Microsoft announced a wide range of improvements such as type providers that made F# a viable alternative to their other .NET languages as a general purpose workhorse. So what exactly are type providers, and why are they a killer reason for using F#? Why should we be considering F# for data-rich applications? To find out, we caught up with Don Syme, F#'s creator, to ask him about the latest developments in F# 3.0 and canvas his views on functional programming in general.… Read more
Donald Knuth is an extraordinary man. As well as inventing 'Literate Programming' and writing the most important textbook on programming algorithms, he is also famous for designing and programming one of the most widely-used digital typesetting systems ever, even designing the fonts that went with it. He also pioneered the use of 'Open-source' software. Knuth is a man of engaging charm and enthusiasms who combines a knowledge of history, music, art and mathematics with a unique insight into the art of computer programming.… Read more
Simon Peyton Jones is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research's lab in Cambridge. Although he is best known as the developer of the definitive Haskell Compiler, his influence on the development of the new generation of functional languages such as F# has been profound. He has also been in the forefront of the development of parallel programming using Software Transactional memory. We sent Richard Morris across the road to find out more.… Read more
For SQL Server and Exchange Server, Windows Server Virtualization is going to be increasingly important as a way for the administrator to allocate hardware resources in the most efficient way, to offer more robust services, and for deploying services. Jaap Wesellius starts his new series on Hyper-V by explaining what Hyper-V is, how it relates to Windows Server 2008 and how it compares to ESX, Virtual Server and Virtual PC. .… Read more
