Azure Databricks is a cloud native (Big) Data analytics service, offered as a managed PaaS environment. It’s designed to hide the underlying distributed systems and networking complexity as much as possible from the end user, so you can focus on developing rather than having to stress over infrastructure management.
When I started to jump from DBA to Data Architect, I thought that these roles would diverge further and further until they became two separate roles and functions. The current evolution Microsoft launched proved me wrong though. Enter Azure Synapse Analytics.
Recently our data wizard Thomas Costers was at a customer who created an indexed view, which spanned multiple tables as part of a release. Because you can't disable lock escalation for an indexed view as you can for a table, he went looking for another solution.
In our latest How To video, our BI wizard Frederik Aerts, integrates the data of his Fitbit into Microsoft Power BI. There are different ways to do it... Enjoy!!
Recently I had a customer providing data for a Power BI report in a format that wasn't ideal for reporting purposes. We solved it by using a combination of pivoting and unpivoting columns. This blog post will show you how to do this.
When you create or update statistics (without specifying a sample rate) the sample rate is automatically calculated by SQL Server. If you would want this statistic (or the whole table) to use a Flat sample rate, say 5 percent, then you could specify a persisting sample rate after updating your stats. Read all about it in this blog.
A while ago, our DAX Diviner at The Kingdom of Wizards, Ken Geeraerts, has been interviewed for a whitepaper on Big Data and AI for the company Nimbuz. Download a free copy of the whitepaper "How Big Data and AI can help your business move forward" here.
Stefanie was planning to update her knowledge on Microsoft Azure. After a good night rest, she was ready for this new adventure. She opened up her laptop, turned on the power and immediately stopped and stood up. First things first. Black gold. Now she was ready to learn about Managed Instance.
In the first part of this blog series on SQL Server plan guides, we looked into the basic plan guide setup. In this part we will be taking a closer look at somethings you cannot do as well, as how to add a plan guide to procedures, and how to find queries that are using plan guides.