A Fine Slice Of SQL Server
Tomaz Kastrun gives us a useful function:
Writing markdown documents outside RStudio (using the usual set of packages) has benefits and struggles. Huge struggle is transforming dataframe results into markdown table, using hypens and pipes. Ugghhh…
Click through for the function.
Comments closedThe last year, however, has had more people looking to implement database DevOps and speed up their development, but not a lot of questions or demands for zero downtime during these deployments. I find that interesting as the world depends more and more on computer systems, and the customer base for many organizations may demand access to the systems at any hour of the day or night.
However, it doesn’t seem that as many people are concerned about small moments of downtime.
My ego would like to tell people that it’s probably because everybody read my post about how zero downtime isn’t really a thing.
Ego aside, it is pretty interesting that Steve’s not finding as much push for minimal downtime. Steve does include a few conjectures as to why it may be so.
Comments closedCameron Kerr tracks down dashboard problems:
Is your Prometheus performance causing your Grafana experience to suffer? Could you explain which of your tens of Grafana dashboards or users are causing performance problems in Prometheus? Let me show you how we unlocked insight into the performance of Grafana and Prometheus, allowing us to answer import service management questions such as:
- Which dashboards are actually being used?
- Who is actually using the dashboards?
- Who has been issuing poorly-performing queries?
- And which dashboard activity is causing my Prometheus instance(s) to perform poorly?
- Is it slow because someone has a dashboard showing a year’s worth of data that auto-refreshes every 30 seconds?
Click through for a thorough article on finding performance bottlenecks in a platform which typically helps you find performance bottlenecks in other platforms.
2 CommentsPaul Hernandez builds out a landing zone for a warehouse:
In this article I want to discuss some different layout options for a landing zone in a modern cloud data warehouse architecture. With landing zone, I mean a storage account where raw data lands directly from its source system (not to be confused with a landing zone to move a system or application into the cloud).
One of the things I appreciate a lot about this post is that it covers the history, showing us how we got to where we are. Paul’s well-versed in each step along the way and lays things out clearly.
Comments closedJose Manuel Jurado Diaz reviews a wait stat:
Today, I worked on a service request that our customer faced a performance issue in their business critical service tier database. Their main suspect was that the syncronization with the secondary replica has a delay.
During their troubleshooting process they found that they got many request with the wait type is HADR_SYNC_COMMIT.
Read on to learn more about this wait, including what can cause it. There’s also a bit of information about it in the SQLskills wait state compendium.
Comments closedMax Trinidad familiarizes us with objects in Powershell:
Working with PSObjects is essential to anyone using PowerShell. Especially, when there’s a need to extend the object to provide useful information.
Remember, the best way to get familiar with the PowerShell object(‘s)… (AKA PSOBject, .NET Object) is to use the ‘Get-Member’ Cmdlet.
Click through for several tips on how to add custom properties and learn more about what’s available on objects along the way.
Comments closedChris Webb explains an ambiguity:
This query connects to the TripPin OData feed (which is public, so you’ll be able to try this yourself) and filters the People table so it only gets the rows where the FirstName column equals “Angel”. If you paste this query into the Advanced Editor in Power Query Online to create a dataflow, you’ll see that the filter shows the “Might Fold” step indicator:
Read on to see what that indicator looks like, as well as an explanation of how Power Query doesn’t always know whether or not something is foldable.
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