A recent report shows that more and more adults are changing the name their parents chose, after deciding it’s just not for them anymore. The analysis of over 14,000 name change applications via Deed ...

In SQL Server Change Data Capture, change activities in a table such as delete, insert, and update are easily available in a relational format. All the required inputs necessary to track changes made ...

Optimizing SQL Server table performance and analysis doesn’t have to be a daunting task. By understanding the importance of table performance, knowing how to describe your tables in SQL Server, and ...

When designing objects in SQL Server, we must follow certain best practices. For example, a table should have primary keys, identity columns, clustered and unclustered indexes, data integrity and ...

It’s surprisingly easy to stop query folding happening in Power Query by changing the data type of a column. This is mentioned in the docs here, and it’s something several people have b… ...

The tables and columns have the same names that they had in the data source, in this case a SQL Server database. Note the table name prefixes of “Dim” for dimensions and “Fact” for fact tables. The ...