Very recently, Microsoft announced the public preview of the Microsoft Fabric Copy Job. This blog will give an explanation of what a Copy Job is, how to create one and why it can be an enormous help in speeding up your data ingestion. What it is The copy job is essentially an abstraction of a … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric Copy Job: Simplifying Data Ingestion
Welcome back to this mini series on Azure Sql Server with Copilot. In the previous posts I wrote about a general introduction of this toolset (click here for more) and had some fun in the Azure Portal getting stuff done (click here for more). In this third part, I'm going in for the data and … Continue reading Sql Server and Copilot. What the query it this? Part 3, query editor
Welcome back! In part one (click here), I've introduced Azure Sql Copilot. In this second part, I'm going to take you along in the Azure portal experience. I'll write about my personal experiences, opinions and the different angles you can use to connect with your database. Let's dig in! For this first part, I’m putting … Continue reading Sql Server and Copilot. What the query it this? Part 2, portal experience
Blog alert! My colleague recently came to me with a fun challenge: why is their SQL Server Hashbytes conversion not working as expected? After some digging, I discovered significant differences between text data types when converting them. Check out my latest blog post to learn more about this interesting topic. #SQL #datahashing #techtalk #SqlServer #Microsoft
Yes I know, clickbaity cheesy title. This blog is a bit like that, but maybe you'll learn something as well. Issue In short, what I was facing today was a trial migration from System A to System B. Which means that data has to flow from one system to the other. System A is a … Continue reading Not every SQL is created equal
In case you missed it, in a few weeks, SQL Bits is happening. This year it's quite close to London in the town of Farnborough. This place keeps sticking in my head as Farnham leading to the song 'you're the voice'. But let's not digress. SQL Bits 2024! If you've never been to SQL Bits, … Continue reading SQL Bits is coming!
Or maybe I should say, with some complications. Or challenges. When I got the job to restore a bacpac file, I didn't think much of it. Because it's quite easy. Get the bacpac and restore it with Azure Data Studio or Sql Server Management Studio. Get coffee, done. Then I got these requirements: The bacpac … Continue reading Restoring a bacpac file, but differently.
Or, how SQL Server behaved differently than I expected but managed to process quite a lot of rows before giving up. Let's begin We have a customer that would like to see the actual value of their stock in a table. They buy their stock at different times and at different prices. Calculating the stock … Continue reading SQL Server Common Table Expressions, a tale.
In my previous blogpost (Click here to read) I wrote about a query that just wouldn't go parallel. This sparked some discussion and interest from a few people who were very kind and helpful with their suggestions and even deep dives into the query plans, execution statistics etc. To make one thing very clear, this … Continue reading Why won’t you go parallel, part 2
With an unsatisfying end. Intro So what's up this time. Our client has moved to Azure in classic lift and shift scenario. Well, almost. They've deployed new VM's and installed SQL Server 2019 Standard in nice DTAP setting. The VM's are standard E16-4as-v4 SKU. 4 vcpus and 128 GB memory. The disks are Premium SSD … Continue reading Why won’t you go parallel, a curious case of a stubborn query.
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