Database Dashboards in Azure Data Studio (2024-05-03)

SQLServerCentral Newsletter for May 3, 2024 Problems displaying this newsletter? [View online](. [SQL Server Central]( Featured Contents - [Database Dashboards in Azure Data Studio]( - [Managing Failed Pipeline Runs in Azure Data Factory]( - [From the SQL Server Central Blogs - Check your regions people]( - [From the SQL Server Central Blogs - Using Git Prune–#SQLNewBlogger]( - [Learn T-SQL Querying]( Question of the Day - [Two Table Hints]( The Voice of the DBA  The On-Call Load For most of us working in technology, I think we understand that if something is broken we might need to work. Not that we have to, or we need to, but we might need to. Perhaps you feel differently, or your company approaches on-call in another way. If so, let me know today how you deal with staff being on-call. In my career, there are jobs with formal on-call, informal on-call, or even no on-call. In the latter situation, there isn't anyone who is prepared to handle issues outside of normal working hours, but that doesn't mean if management calls you can ignore them. It's that the organization didn't expect issues. I worked in a small company (< 50 people), where we primarily had systems for people who worked in the office, and nothing was running at night (outside of backups). Normally no one knew if there was an issue overnight or on weekends, but I did get called by the owner when he went in one weekend and couldn't receive a fax on our computer system. So I guess I was the emergency-on-call person. In both large and small companies, I've had formal on-call situations where humans or automated systems would know I was assigned as the person to contact for issues. These might be 24-hour periods, weeks, or even a month at a time. In informal situations, usually, there was a list of technical people's contact information and anyone needing help would just pick one and call, often based on who they thought could solve the problem. For most of my career, being on-call hasn't been a large burden. I've been interrupted during some events, dinners, or holidays, but relatively rarely. My wife and I have felt it wasn't too burdensome, especially given compensation and other flexibility. At the same time, there have been some places where on-call is a disruption to my life. Usually, I've tried to leave those positions as quickly as I could, though that might take months. I always ask about on-call responsibilities when I interview for positions. It's not that the answer is a deciding factor, but it is a factor. If on-call is more demanding, I would ask for something in return: perhaps comp time, more salary, or some other flexibility. What is your on-call situation? Is that acceptable to you? Have you never been called outside of working hours? Let me know today. Steve Jones - SSC Editor [Join the debate, and respond to today's editorial on the forums](   Featured Contents [SQLServerCentral Article]( [Database Dashboards in Azure Data Studio]( Steve Jones - SSC Editor from SQLServerCentral Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built on Visual Studio Code. I've written a few articles on how the tool works, and this one continues the series. In this article, I want to look at the database dashboards and how you can customize them. The other articles in this series on ADS works […] [External Article]( [Managing Failed Pipeline Runs in Azure Data Factory]( Additional Articles from MSSQLTips.com In this article, we look at how to setup different ways to handle pipeline failures and notifications when working with Azure and Azure Data Factory. [Blog Post]( From the SQL Server Central Blogs - [Check your regions people]( Koen Verbeeck from Koen Verbeeck Today I was having a nice discussion with some colleagues about Fabric and pricing/licensing came up. I mentioned an F2 is only around €250 a month, but a colleague... [Blog Post]( From the SQL Server Central Blogs - [Using Git Prune–#SQLNewBlogger]( Steve Jones - SSC Editor from The Voice of the DBA As I’ve been working with SQL Saturday and managing changes to events, I’ve accumulated a lot of branches. Even though I’m a solo developer, I decided to use branches,... [Learn T-SQL Querying]( [Learn T-SQL Querying]( Additional Articles from SQLServerCentral Troubleshoot query performance issues, identify anti-patterns in your code, and write efficient T-SQL queries with this guide for T-SQL developers   Question of the Day Today's question (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor):  Two Table Hints What happens when I run this code: SELECT p.ProductName , p.ProductCategory FROM dbo.Product AS p WITH (NOLOCK, TABLOCK); Think you know the answer? [Click here]( and find out if you are right.    Yesterday's Question of the Day (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor) Post Restore Tasks for the Resource Database I backup the Resource database from my SQL Server 2022 instance. I then install CUs 1, 2, 3, and 4. I have an issue and need to restore my Resource database from backup. Is there anything I need to do after restoring this database? Answer: CU 4 must be reapplied Explanation: Only CU4 needs to be applied. 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For the most part, the basic structure is like this: Purchase--(M,1)--Ingredient--(1,M)--Recipe--(M,1)--Product with one exception the "Recipe" part works fine. (IngredientKey, ProductKey, Weight). The part I'm having trouble with is that one ingredient (starter) consists of other ingredients (kinda like a subassembly, if you wanted […] [Do I need a recursive query for this? bill of materials (sort of)]( - I am working on a data warehouse project for a bakery. For the most part, the basic structure is like this: Purchase--(M,1)--Ingredient--(1,M)--Recipe--(M,1)--Product with one exception the "Recipe" part works fine. (IngredientKey, ProductKey, Weight). The part I'm having trouble with is that one ingredient (starter) consists of other ingredients (kinda like a subassembly, if you wanted […]   [RSS Feed]( This email has been sent to {EMAIL}. To be removed from this list, please click [here](. 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