Chris Webb's BI Blog

Diagnosing Power BI DirectQuery Performance Problems Caused By SQL Queries That Return Large Resultsets

The Execute Direct Query event has a duration of 2.1 seconds – meaning that again there is a gap to be explained, a gap where ...
GitHub

This .NET library aims to simplify two common workflows that copy table data between SQL Server databases.

Uses SQLBulkCopy to copy data from a table or view in the source database to a temporary table in the target database before running SQL MERGE from the temporary table to the destination table. This ...
GitHub

Using transaction with EF core 6 with SQL Server Temporal tables leads to generation of rows with identical values for Start/End datetimes on period columns that cannot be ...

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 ...
Interesting Engineering

9 helpful SQL tips to create and maintain a top-notch database

SQL is one of the most popular coding languages used today to handle data stored on relational databases. SQL works exceptionally well with structured data, It can be overwhelming to learn initially, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

How to Query JSON Data with SQL Server 2016

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...