• PySpark Secrets to use with Fabric

    Updated: 2024-04-30 17:00:49
    PySpark is a powerful language for data manipulation and it’s full of tricks. Let’s discover some of them. Control the Type of a NULL column If you are creating a pysspark dataframe, but one of the columns contains only null values (None), how could you control the type of the column? There is an interesting … The post PySpark Secrets to use with Fabric appeared first on Simple Talk.

  • How to check Package version in EBS R12

    Updated: 2024-04-30 11:27:09
    Oracle Database Packages are widely used in EBS R12. We have thousands of Packages in the Apps schema. These packages are loaded and modified in the Oracle database using adpatch or adop using the files in the $PRODUCT_TOP/patch/115/sql/*pls. In this article, we will see How to check Package version in EBS R12 Sometimes, we have … How to check Package version in EBS R12 Read More » The post How to check Package version in EBS R12 appeared first on Techgoeasy.

  • Database technology learning resources

    Updated: 2024-04-27 20:04:12
    Before I started as the editor of Simple Talk, I worked on SQL Server. Only. (Ok, I used Redgate’s tools too). But when I started here, one of the goals was to stretch the topics farther and farther into more and more data platforms. And it is not just me in my niche job that … The post Database technology learning resources appeared first on Simple Talk.

  • Working with IAsyncEnumerable in C#

    Updated: 2024-04-24 15:37:58
    IAsyncEnumerable is a powerful interface introduced in C# 8.0 that allows you to work with sequences of data asynchronously. It is a great fit for building ETLs that asynchronously stream data to get it ready for transfer. You can think of IAsyncEnumerable as the asynchronous counterpart of IEnumerable because both interfaces allow you to easily … The post Working with IAsyncEnumerable in C# appeared first on Simple Talk.

  • 4 Reasons to use KustoDB for Real-Time

    Updated: 2024-04-23 17:00:45
    When implementing real-time ingestion, we usually implement an architecture called lambda. Using the lambda architecture, KustoDB in Microsoft Fabric is always recommended for the speed layer. Do you know why? Let’s analyze in detail. 1 – KustoDB uses SSD KustoDB uses an internal SSD storage. Lakehouses use ADLS as their backend. In this way, Kusto … The post 4 Reasons to use KustoDB for Real-Time appeared first on Simple Talk.

  • Recursive CTEs: Transforming and Analyzing Data in PostgreSQL, Part 3

    Updated: 2024-04-22 01:12:09
    The first two articles in this series demonstrated how PostgreSQL is a capable tool for ELT – taking raw input and transforming it into usable data for querying and analyzing. We used sample data from the Advent of Code 2023 to demonstrate some of the ELT techniques in PostgreSQL. In the first article, we discussed … The post Recursive CTEs: Transforming and Analyzing Data in PostgreSQL, Part 3 appeared first on Simple Talk.

  • Building a Culture of Data: The Technical Aspects

    Updated: 2024-04-19 20:52:36
    In the first part of this two-part series, I covered the mostly non-technical aspects of building a data culture. While the lion’s share of the work will be getting people to work together and embrace ever deeper use of data, as a reader of Simple-Talk, a lot of this transition will be technical. In this … The post Building a Culture of Data: The Technical Aspects appeared first on Simple Talk.

  • Database Subsetting and Data Extraction

    Updated: 2024-04-17 21:27:55
    Let’s start by defining a subset and why you would require a data subset? When dealing with the development, testing and releasing of new versions of an existing production database, developers like to use their existing production data. In doing so, the development team will be hit with the difficulties of managing and accommodating the … The post Database Subsetting and Data Extraction appeared first on Simple Talk.

  • Exploration Experience: Saving and Creating Datasets

    Updated: 2024-04-17 17:00:02
    I have been talking about Data Exploration in Power BI on many of my sessions, specially the sessions about Data Marts. The new data exploration feature is one more feature on this expanding scenario for data exploration. This one brings some interesting details. We start using this feature from a query. The feature will allow … The post Exploration Experience: Saving and Creating Datasets appeared first on Simple Talk.

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