Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

A workaround to allow you to create multiple tables in a Direct Lake semantic model linked to the same table in OneLake ...

The error “Column is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause” appears when a query uses ...

This article is not about ethics, privacy, security, ownership, or corporate governance — I am going to circumvent all of this here by using some made-up data relating to supermarket sales: Here, I ...

Ever feel like creating custom columns in Power Query is more frustrating than it should be? The process can often feel overwhelming, especially when you’re juggling null values, complex calculations, ...

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...

Have you ever stared at a massive dataset, only to realize it’s riddled with empty columns that serve no purpose? It’s a frustrating scenario—one that wastes time, clutters your workflow, and makes ...

Snowflake wants to reduce enterprises’ reliance on data engineers and data scientists for unstructured data analysis with its new SQL functions powered by generative AI. Snowflake is adding generative ...

1 Faculty of Science, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Canada. 2 Faculty of Business and IT, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Canada. 3 Legion Development Group, Oshawa, Canada. This study presents a ...

Dr. Murthy is the surgeon general. One of the most important lessons I learned in medical school was that in an emergency, you don’t have the luxury to wait for perfect information. You assess the ...