PowerShell Functions and Return Types
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- Development
- PowerShell
The OutputType for a PowerShell function is useless.
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A Faster PIVOT for SQL Server?
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- Development
- JSON
- SQL Server
- T-SQL
Can the performance of PIVOT be beaten with newer T-SQL features?
[...Read More]Analytic Function FIRST_VALUE
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- Development
- SQL Server
- T-SQL
Return the first value in an ordered set of values with analytic function FIRST_VALUE.
[...Read More]NBA Games Are Harder Than Ever To Watch
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- NBA
The NBA's most valuable asset has been devalued. And it's the fans who pay the price.
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T-SQL Tuesday #135: Outstanding Tools
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- T-SQL
Tools of the trade that make my job awesome.
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Microsoft Certifications: an Evolving Stance
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- Azure
- Career
- Certification
- Microsoft
- SQL Server
Why I'm not as gung-ho about Microsoft certifications as I used to be.
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Adding Custom Transact-SQL Code Snippets
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- Development
- SQL Server
- SSMS
- T-SQL
How to add a custom Transact-SQL code snippet to SQL Server Management Studio.
[...Read More]Transact-SQL Code Snippets
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- Development
- SQL Server
- SSMS
- T-SQL
Use code snippets to assist writing Transact-SQL code.
[...Read More]Columnstore For Real-Time Operational Analytics
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- Columnstore
- Database Administration
- SQL Server
Run both analytics and OLTP workloads on the same database tables at the same time.
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Scraping Web Pages - Part 2
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- Development
- JSON
- R
- SQL Server
- T-SQL
Acquire web page data in-database with Machine Learning Services...and JSON.
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