Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

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I’ve been working on automating a SQL Server query using PowerShell and I'd like to share the process. I’ll show you how to securely connect to a database, run ...

In today’s fast-paced business world, time is a valuable resource, and organizations are constantly looking for ways to save it. One area where time-saving can make a huge difference is in the ...

Microsoft security researchers recently identified a campaign where attackers attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through a SQL Server instance. This attack technique demonstrates an ...

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A Scheduler Based Sqlalchemy for Celery. NOTE: This project was originally developed by AngelLiang to use sqlalchemy as the database scheduler for Flask or FastAPI, like django-celery-beat for django.

As PPC account managers, we’ve always had to do a lot of reporting to keep our stakeholders informed. Now with the continued rise in automation, reporting has taken on new importance as one of the key ...

One of the most common questions I get asked is “How can I use Power BI in DirectQuery mode on top of a REST API?”. This seems like a reasonable thing to do but almost everyone who tries it will fail, ...

When Power BI dataflows were officially released a few weeks ago there was a new setting for Premium capacities mentioned briefly in the announcement blog post: Container Size. The blog post only says ...