This is a performance testing framework for Spark SQL in Apache Spark 2.2+. The framework contains twelve benchmarks that can be executed in local mode. They are organized into three classes and ...

I’ve seen a lot of promising AI prototypes fall apart after launch. And it’s rarely because the model was bad. More often, the problem starts much earlier; teams treat the data layer like something ...

A cron job that worked perfectly for six months suddenly runs two hours early. A payment dashboard shows yesterday's revenue in today's column. Session tokens expire at unpredictable times. These bugs ...

The <min_value> parameter for the numeric versions of this function does not need to be aligned to numeric zero with respect to the <increment_by> value. You can specify a source increment of 2 and a ...

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about how you can now link event data from Workspace Monitoring to data in the Fabric Capacity Metrics App using OperationId values. In the latest (3.4.0) release ...

A dark web user has allegedly claimed a breach involving Luxor International Private Limited, a prominent Indian manufacturer of stationery products. The Luxor data breach was first detected on April ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Time series data is a set of values organized in the order in which they occur and arrive for processing. Unlike transactional data in SQL Server, which is not ...

Something I do all the time when performance tuning Power BI is use SQL Server Profiler to monitor query and refresh activity. There’s a handy external tool that lets you open up Profiler with a ...