A Fine Slice Of SQL Server
David Wilson needs to open a module:
When you’re testing PowerShell modules, importing, referencing, and removing modules can be a little bit tricky. These are some things that I’ve found to make tests more reliable.
Click through for several tips on how to do this.
Comments closedBenjamin Smith’s ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to his newsletter:
Jinja is a powerful templating engine that is useful in a variety of contexts. Recently, I discovered how its possible to use the power of Jinja syntax in R with the
jinjarpackage written by David C Hall. Withjinjarand thetidyRSSpackage by Robert Myles it is possible to make an email template that can provide short and informative updates. In his blog, I’m going to share how thejinjarandtidyRSSpackages work and show how to combine them to make a simple daily email newsletter.
Read on to learn how.
Comments closedLukas Vileikis continues a series on MySQL backup options:
There are many tools we can use to back up our MySQL databases. Some are well-known and used by the best technology companies out there (
mysqldumpcomes to mind), and some are a little less famous, but still have their place in the MySQL world. Entermydumper– the tool is built by the engineering team over at Percona and it‘s supposedly created to address performance issues caused bymysqldump.
Read on to see what it is and how it works.
Comments closedEd Pollack wants to know what time it is:
Converting a current time from one time zone to another is relatively easy. Regardless of whether daylight savings is involved or not, one simply needs to retrieve the current time in both time zones, find the difference, and apply that difference as needed to date/time calculations. Historical data is trickier, though, as times from the past may cross different daylight savings boundaries.
This article dives into all the math required to convert historical times between time zones. While seemingly academic in nature, this information can be used when building applications that interact between time zones and need to apply detailed rules to those applications and their users. These calculations will be demonstrated in T-SQL and a function built that can help in handling the math for you.
The pro tip is to store all data in UTC and perform date and time calculations at the edge, where you know the user’s time zone. Ed has plenty of good advice in here as well.
Comments closedAaron Bertrand doesn’t want to archive things by himself every month:
Earlier in this series (part 1 | part 2), I wrote at a high level about how to solve issues with ever-growing log tables without large delete operations or data movement to a secondary archive table. In this tip, I’ll share a few code snippets you can use to automate the generation of objects to help make these solutions hands-free.
Read on for the tips.
Comments closedKoen Verbeeck does a bit of shuffling:
I loaded the data into a table in Azure SQL DB. For demo purposes, I want to transfer this data from a SQL table to a container in Azure Cosmos DB (with the NoSQL API). There are plenty of resources on the web on how to transfer a simple relational table to Cosmos DB, but I have some additional complexity. One column – flavor profiles – contains a list of flavors that is assigned to a beer.
Click through for one way to organize the data when dealing with arrays.
Comments closedJason Cockington makes several recommendations of external tools for Power BI Desktop:
The External Tools ribbon is a feature that has been available in Power BI Desktop since the July 2020 release. This feature should be considered essential to anyone who is regularly working in the Power BI space. In this article I recommend my top five External Tools, that I consider essential to any Power BI developer.
Read on for the recommendations. I regularly use two of the five but these do look good.
Comments closedChris Webb does some compacting:
Power BI can handle large data volumes, but just how much data can you load into Power BI? Can Power BI handle big data? How big is “big” anyway? These are questions you may have when you’re starting out on a new Power BI project and the answers can be hard to find. Indeed the answer in most cases is “it depends”, which isn’t very helpful. In this post I will try to explain the various limits on Power BI dataset size and how you can know if you’re likely to hit them.
Click through to learn more about these limitations.
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