A Fine Slice Of SQL Server
Louis Davidson listened to some advice:
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on using temporary stored procedures in SQL Server. Kevin Feasel of Curated SQL had this reply Using Temporary Stored Procedures to Output Common Messages. I had heard of FORMATMESSAGE before, but I had completely coupled this in my mind with formatting SQL Server error messages. (Which turns out to be a great use of this tech)
Click through to see how it works and some additional testing with RAISERROR().
Leave a CommentJack Vanlightly shows some tradeoffs:
Today I want to talk about stream analytics, batch analytics and Apache Iceberg. Stream and batch analytics work differently but both can be built on top of Iceberg, but due to their differences there can be a tug-of-war over the Iceberg table itself. In this post I am going to use two real-world systems, Apache Fluss (streaming tabular storage) and Confluent Tableflow (Kafka-to-Iceberg), as a case study for these tensions between stream and batch analytics.
Read on for a summary of how two opposite ideas can both be perfectly reasonable.
Leave a CommentAs companies adopt Microsoft Fabric, the distance between backend artifact and Semantic Model is smaller than ever, and it feels more obvious than ever to push some of those local transformations to your Fabric Storage item of choice.
The question is. How do you do that? There are many options:
Read on for those options. Jon focuses on one for people with less database experience.
Leave a CommentBrent Ozar follows up on yesterday’s post:
SQL Server 2025 and .NET 10 bring several new improvements to storing JSON natively in the database and querying it quickly.
On the SQL Server 2025 side, the two big ones are the new native JSON indexes and the new JSON_CONTAINS function. Let’s see their improvements in action. On the .NET 10 side, EF 10 not only supports the new JSON data type, but on databases of compatibility level 170 or higher, EF will automatically migrate JSON data from NVARCHAR(MAX) data types over to JSON the next time you do a migration, as explained in the What’s New in EF Core 10 doc. That makes it especially important for you to understand how the new JSON indexes work, because they may be coming at you quickly the instant you change your compatibility level.
Read on to see Brent’s take.
Leave a CommentAndy Brownsword saves some quid:
If you have a Self-Hosted Integration Runtime (SHIR, or IR for short here) on an Azure Virtual Machine (VM), there’s a cost to keep it online. When used intermittently – for example during batch processes – this is inefficient for costs as you’re paying for the compute you don’t need. One way to alleviate this is by controlling uptime of the environment manually, only bringing it online for as long as needed.
Read on to see how to do this.
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