End of an Era – SQL PASS and Lessons learned from Blog Posts –...
Most of my blog is filled with posts related to PASS in some way. Events, various volunteering opportunities, keynote blogging, this or that…With the...
Using Azure Durable Functions with Azure Data Factory – HTTP Long Polling from Blog...
(2020-Dec-21) While working with Azure Functions that provide a serverless environment to run my computer program code, I’m still struggling to understand how it actually...
Daily Coping 21 Dec 2020 from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the...
Estimating the storage savings by removing columns with NULL value across the table or...
In the previous article Find columns with NULL values across the table we discussed that storage space can be saved by removing columns with...
The 2021 Plan for SQLOrlando from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
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Over the past couple years we’ve been slowly evolving from a fairly adhoc plan of doing what we did last...
Some Post-PASS Thoughts on Local User Groups from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
For all the groups the most immediate need is to rescue what they can of the mailing list stored at PASS.org and to have...
TF-IDF in .NET for Apache Spark Using Spark ML v2 from Blog Posts –...
Spark ML in .NET for Apache Spark Apache Spark has had a machine learning API for quite some time and this has been partially...
ETL Antipattern: Load Processes that Don’t Scale from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
One of the most significant design considerations in ETL process development is the volume of data to be processed. Most ETL processes have time...
Placing my Bid for SQLSaturday.com from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
I’m making my bid. I don’t know this brand needs to continue, or that it will, but I’d like to hold this for posterity,...
Speaker Guidance: Save Your Data from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
The PASS organization (and likely SQL Saturday) are shutting down their sites on 15 Jan, 2021. This means that potentially lots of links and...
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