When working with Azure Synapse Serverless, we store the data in Parquet Files, not in a database. These Parquet Files in Data Lake are external tables in the serverless database. One limitation related to the external tables exists – we can’t DML them, i.e. we can SELECT, but not INSERT […]
Run-Around
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In one of my web projects (ASP.NET and SQL Server) I have a screen with top 50 customers. To facilitate the client, I put few textboxes and give them the chance to filter the customers, until they reach the one that they need. In another case I use a textbox […]
Working with multi-value parameters in SSRS is always fun. We need to pick a good delimiter, add additional values like “ALL” or “BLANKS” and many others. In the following few lines I explain a logics to add a multi-value parameter to SSRS with additional values (all) to not apply the […]
In a lot of situations we may not have permissions to use SQL Server Agent for automations of our back-end processes. I built a run-around that uses a Windows Scheduled Task, SQLCMD and Stored Procedure to run task. Work flow: 1. Windows Scheduled Task calls a .bat file at specific […]