A Fine Slice Of SQL Server
Steven Sanderson wants things in the right order:
The first example shows how to order the boxplots based on a specific order for the variable being plotted. We will use the built-in airquality dataset in R. The following code shows how to order the boxplots based on the following order for the Month variable: 5, 8, 6, 9, 7.
Click through to see that result, as well as two other examples.
Comments closedMatthew de Detrich explains the value behind tiered storage in Apache Kafka:
Tiered Storage is arguably one of the most sought-after features of Kafka 3.6, allowing Kafka’s core data to be stored in other locations, such as object storage, in addition to hard disks in a transparent manner, without any changes to Kafka’s producers or consumers. The Kafka brokers control whether the data is stored on local disks, fast but expensive and limited, or in alternative storage places, such as Amazon S3. When Tiered Storage is properly configured, it means you can have the best of both worlds: recent data is stored on local fast disks (as is currently), and older, less frequently accessed data can be stored elsewhere where it’s cheaper and space requirements are less of a concern (sometimes unlimited!)
Read on to learn more about the official version of tiered storage, as well as a forward port of two prior implementation attempts to Kafka version 3.3.
Comments closedNicky van Vroenhoven calls a timeout:
After a while it got me thinking:
- What does it actually mean when I pause a Fabric capacity?
- What will stop working?
- What can I still do and won’t stop working?
Read on for the answer to this question.
Comments closedAmit Khandelwal disambiguates two options:
Recently, in one of the meetings with our CSS team (support) we realized that our customers might not be selecting the right Enterprise edition for their SQL Servers deployed on Linux. To learn more about different SQL Server editions please refer: Editions and supported features of SQL Server 2022 – SQL Server | Microsoft Learn.
Thus, through this blog we would like to provide guidance on how you can identify and update the SQL Server to use the right Enterprise edition which should show up in the error log as : “Enterprise Edition: Core-based Licensing (64-bit)” and not “Enterprise Edition (64-bit)” which is only needed in case you need to follow historical licensing agreements that limits to a maximum 20 cores per SQL Server instance.
Read on to learn how you can change the edition if you did indeed goof on the installation.
Comments closedThis week, one of my colleagues at Microsoft, Nat Van Gulck, showed me a cool new open-source tool he’s been working on to make VisOps for Power BI much easier: PBI Inspector. What is VisOps? I’ll admit I didn’t really know either, so being lazy I asked Nat to write a few paragraphs describing the project and why it will be useful:
Read on for Nat’s description and an example of PBI Inspector in action.
Comments closedItzik Ben-Gan lays out some fundamentals:
When people start learning a new field, for example T-SQL, it’s tempting to spend very little time trying to understand the fundamentals of the field so that you can quickly get to the advanced parts. You might think that you already understand what certain ideas, concepts and terms mean, so you don’t necessarily see the value in dwelling on them. That’s often the case with newcomers to T-SQL, especially because soon after you start learning the language, you can already write queries that return results, giving you a false impression that it’s a simple or easy language. However, without a good understanding of the foundations and roots of the language, you’re bound to end up writing code that doesn’t mean what you think it means. To be able to write robust and correct T-SQL code, you really want to spend a lot of energy on making sure that you have an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals.
No matter your knowledge level, there’s a really good chance you’ll learn at least one new thing in this article.
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