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Understanding 'ALTER TABLE SWITCH statement failed' errors 4907, 4908, and 4912
🔍 Discover why SQL Server's ALTER TABLE SWITCH encounters errors 4907, 4908, and 4912! 🚀
Eitan Blumin
Aug 17, 202310 min read


What is ANSI_PADDING and why we should use it?
Today, I was late for team meeting ... :( When I joined a Teams meeting, the team discussed ANSI_PADDING. One of the teammates fires at...

Vitaly Bruk
Aug 15, 20233 min read


Create a date dimension on Azure Databricks
A date dimension is extremely useful and is required by most BI applications. Here is a code sample for creating one on Azure Databricks

Chen Hirsh
Aug 9, 20232 min read


Migrating Azure CosmosDB Tables API - An Impossible Task?
A few months ago, I was involved in an interesting project where a large customer (not to be named due to NDA) needed to migrate their...
Eitan Blumin
Aug 2, 20233 min read


Change data capture on Azure data factory revisited
Revisiting my post on change data capture on Azure data factory, I want to see what's new on this front.

Chen Hirsh
Jul 31, 20232 min read


Active Geo-Replication for Azure SQL Database
By Eric Rouach, DBA & Data Engineer at Madeira Data Solutions July 2023 With Active Geo-Replication , you can create a read-only...

Eric Rouach
Jul 29, 20233 min read


How can DBAs Implement the SPIN Sales Strategy to Better Understand Customer Needs
As a DBA, understanding your customers' needs is crucial. In this blog post, I'll discuss how the SPIN sales strategy can help you, the...
Eitan Blumin
Jul 27, 20231 min read
אינדקסים
אינדקסים הם כלי בעל חשיבות עצומה בכל מה שקשור לשליפות (ואולי גם עדכונים) של טבלאות, וככלל ניתן לומר כך: כשאין אינדקס אנחנו "מרוויחים"...

Geri Reshef
Jul 18, 20238 min read


Is TreeMap the answer to the pie graph's "problems?"
"New, better alternative to Pie Charts: Treemap" this is a title I meet a lot in many blog posts and articles about data visualization....

Rita Fainshtein
Jul 16, 20232 min read


Azure data factory self-hosted integration runtime. what is it and when to use it?
Azure data factory has an agent for on-prem networks called self-hosted integration runtime. The most common use case is accessing data sour

Chen Hirsh
Jul 14, 20233 min read
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