SQL Database DevOps (2 of 2)

How to automatically refresh a QA sql database from Prod by leveraging Azure DevOps and/or GitHub.

🌎 AI Bootcamp – Tomorrow in Fort Lauderdale!

I'll be speaking at Global AI Bootcamp this weekend in the Microsoft Fort Lauderdale office. My session will be at 1:30 pm in Room 3, tomorrow, Saturday. It's free to attend. I am very excited to cover new material on Spark and Azure Data Studio Machine Learning Services extension which is soon to-be-announced. I hope…

Protected: Upgrade SQL Server “In-Place” with Skip Over (on Windows)

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Power BI Fest 2019🎊

This year we're having the first ever Power BI Fest in South Florida and I was lucky to have been invited to speak at the event. I will be giving 2 talks in the morning. More info and registration around the event can be found on the event's website https://powerbifest.com/home/presenters. Space is very limited. Sessions…

🏹 SQL Audit – See Through Walls

It's #TSQLTuesday and I received a question that occurs any day of the week. I hadn't posted anything in a few days, so I thought I'd share this one. Hope it helps. A Friend Asked Does the native audit feature has any GUI where we can see the reports ( example:- List of the users…

PASS Summit 2019

Sentiment Prediction - Real-time in SQL Server Power Platform - The Game Changer

DW Table Distribution Options ⚡

Replicated (optional) vs Round Robin (default) vs Hash (optional) The statement about replicated vs round robing is simply a storage distribution setting. In the data warehouse world due to the massive parallel processing capabilities these distribution settings help us do performance tuning so queries run optimal at a lower cost. Azure SQL Data Warehouse has…

Get Cognitive API 📺

In this short video, I explain how to call the Azure Cognitive Services - Text Analytics API from SQL Server by using T-SQL and Python in a Stored Procedure. In the demo, I first cover the prerequisite steps and create a view to prep data in JSON format. Then, I use the Sentiment Analysis API…

Recent Benchmark Studies 🧩

Perhaps you haven't seen it. Hopefully it helps someone as it has others. It is specific to APS (Analytics Platform System) and PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse), even if you're assessing other items. Want to evaluate your cloud analytics provider? Here are the three questions to ask. By Julia White, Corp VP, Microsoft Azure. Independent benchmark results Company-wide…

SQL Server Big Data Cluster 🧭

This list of tools and resources are intended to help you manage a Big Data Cluster (SQL, PDW, HDFS, Spark, k8s) on SQL Server 2019. You can already start familiarizing yourself with them to better prepare your implementation. Install big data tools - SQL Server big data clusters | Microsoft Docs https://t.co/uAgY4d9gMT — Hiram Fleitas…