Curious engineer writing about things that work, fail, and unexpectedly scale. SQL practice is boring because nothing feels real. You type SELECT * FROM users, get a green checkmark, move on. The data ...
In yet another entry in my series on what you should be doing in Power BI Copilot AI Instructions, in this post I want to address the most difficult (in terms of deciding what to do, rather than how ...
Database administrator with 14+ years of hands-on experience in database management and database design. After spending 15 years as a SQL Server DBA, I've witnessed numerous technological evolutions, ...
If you have a Power BI report with a matrix visual on it it’s quite likely that you’ll want all the levels in the matrix to be fully expanded by default. But did you know that the way you expand all ...
At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across a ...
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Support for bulk XML load to improve performance. Note: since SQL Server 2008, the SQLXML module that supports bulk XML load is no longer automatically installed, so ...
Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...