As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...
The blog recommended that users learn to train their own AI models by downloading the Harry Potter dataset and then uploading text files to Azure Blob Storage. It included example models based on a ...
With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...
Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between columns and rows is that a column arranges data vertically from top ...
Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...
I'm using a EF Core 6 DbContext transaction to create/update entities on a SQL Server temporal table. The data I'm processing (array of items) has a key (Year-Sequential, like: 2023-001, 2023-002, etc ...
When designing objects in SQL Server, we must follow certain best practices. For example, a table should have primary keys, identity columns, clustered and unclustered indexes, data integrity and ...
SQL Server 2022: Here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database workhorse that powers both an internal line of business applications and ...