T-SQL (Transact-SQL) is a set of SQL language programming extensions developed by Sybase and Microsoft. These extensions are adopted in Microsoft SQL Server and it provides a powerful set of functions to execute analytics and administrative commands; also it is very helpful during data wrangling.
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In this article, we will run through the new options added in the Query Store with SSMS v18.4.
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Power BI is a data analytics tool developed by Microsoft used to visualize data and find useful insights. In this article, you will see how to work with the Query Editor in Power BI desktop. Power BI comes in various versions, i.e., Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Mobile, and Power BI Developer. Power BI desktop is the free version, and the query editor is available in all three versions.
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In this article, I am going to explain how we can split the data within the excel file and upload it to the tables created on the Azure SQL database.
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This article walks through different versions of the T-SQL IF EXISTS statement for the SQL database using various examples.
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In this article, we will discuss a number of interview questions that cover the SQL Server Replication concept, components, types, and troubleshooting scenarios.
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In this article, we will learn the SQL Average function which is known as AVG() function in T-SQL. AVG() function is an aggregate function that calculates the average value of a numerical dataset that returns from the SELECT statement.
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In this article, we will discuss a number of interview questions that you could be asked about the SQL Server Always On Availability Groups feature when attending an interview for the SQL Server database administrator role.
In this article, I have explained the step by step process of migrating data from SQL Server to Azure Cosmos database. To perform database migration, we will proceed in the following manner:
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This article discusses what exactly an Azure Data Explorer is and its important features. We will also walk through the Kusto query language and explore a sample data in the Data Explorer in Azure.
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Microsoft supports SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio. It is an exciting feature that allows creating a notebook for multiple languages such as Python, SQL, PowerShell. You might have heard about the Jupyter notebook. It is a popular web-based notebook that provides rich programming language support. SQL Notebook is an inspiration for the Jupyter notebook.
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In this article, we will give a brief overview of BIML by showing how it can be installed and how we can use it to generate SSIS packages using the BimlExpress tool. Finally, we will provide some good resources to learn this technology.
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You can create several user-defined objects in a database. One of these is definitely user-defined functions. When used as intended, they are a very powerful tool in databases. In today’s article, we’ll see how to create, change and remove them from the database, as well as how to use them. So, let’s dive into the matter.
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The Jupyter notebook is a powerful and interactive tool that supports various programming languages such as Python, R, Julia. This open-source utility is popular among data scientists and engineers. This notebook integrates both code and text in a document that allows you to execute code, view visualization, solve mathematical equations.
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In this article, we will learn the SQL CROSS JOIN concept and support our learnings with straightforward examples, which are explained with illustrations.
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This article explores the SSMS Code Snippet feature and ways to customize it.
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The set theory is very important in order to understand data and databases. While you could live without it and still be a good SQL developer, understanding it will surely help a lot. So, let’s dive into the matter.
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This article explores the uses of the SET PARSEONLY SQL command for SQL Server queries.
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This article gives you an insight into the SQL Truncate and SQL Delete commands behavior.
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Microsoft Clustering is the next data mining topic we will be discussing in our SQL Server Data mining techniques series. Until now, we have discussed a few data mining techniques like: Naïve Bayes, Decision Trees, Time Series, and Association Rules.
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This article talks about Azure Data Catalog and how data professionals can use it to locate, understand and consume data sources.
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This article explains the process of defining custom color codes for SQL Server connections in SSMS.
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AzCopy is a command-line tool that is used to upload and download blobs/files from or to the Azure Blob Storage. In this article, I am going to explain how we can use it to create a new container on Azure blob storage and upload the data from the local machine to the Azure blob storage.
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In this article, we will explore various ways for scripting SQL Server database objects.
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What are SQL data types, why do we need them, and how to use them? Today, we’ll try to answer these questions by giving an overview of some most common data types used in SQL Server.
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