One Way to Create a Parquet File from SQL Server Data

Yesterday I was coding away, deep into using C# to decompress and parse Excel XML so I could read data from a specific worksheet in a workbook on a server without Excel objects installed, when I saw the following on Twitter: For those of you who do not already know… I Don’t Switch Contexts Well I …
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Dude, Where’s My Controls? (Visual Studio 2017 Behavior)

I’m coding along on the next release of SSIS Catalog Compare, happy as a clam, when I realize it’s time to add a new menu item. I open the form and… nothing. To say my heart sank would be an understatement. I had questions. “Dude, where’s my controls?” “What happened?!” “Will I be able to …
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