Ed Elliott

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1. How to test ETL processes in production
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-24

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1. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-11-01

   Just because people don't write tests and use tooling doesn't mean it doesn't exist! When I write pipelines I write unit tests for the business logic and integration tests for the overall process. Whether you use SSIS, Alteryx, Spark whatever you can write tests and you can debug using known inputs, rather than running an entire pipeline to see that is works! These are my typical thoughts on ETL testing: https://the…

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2. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-05-02

   Submitted Naming Database Tables: Is It Person, Peoples, Persons or People? as a story · 18 points

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3. teddyuk · 2016-01-12

   For me the tooling is really the best out of all rdbms's for the developer tools ssdt provides a full api to query and create t-sql like rosylyn but for t-sql: https://the.agilesql.club/blog/Ed-Elliott/2016-01-07/What-Is...

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4. ed_elliott_asc · 2021-03-02

   Submitted Git in 10 Commands to Do 99% of Gitting and Keeping Out of Trouble as a story · 5 points

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5. ed_elliott_asc · 2020-03-06

   Submitted The four tenets of ETL testing as a story · 4 points

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6. ed_elliott_asc · 2025-11-16

   Submitted MS SQL Management Studio Copilot lacks security controls to use in prod as a story · 3 points

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7. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-10-01

   Submitted Testing ETL Processes as a story · 3 points

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8. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-07-25

   Submitted Testing ETL Pipelines as a story · 3 points

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9. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-06-11

   Submitted The “secret key” to automated database deployments as a story · 3 points

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10. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-06-10

    Submitted What steps are there to move to safe automated database deployments? as a story · 3 points

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11. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-05-15

    Submitted How to delete large amounts of data from SQL Server as a story · 3 points

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12. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-05-08

    Submitted To load test a SQL database, forget about the database as a story · 3 points

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13. ed_elliott_asc · 2021-01-17

    Submitted How to Get Data in a DataFrame via .NET for Apache Spark as a story · 2 points

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14. ed_elliott_asc · 2020-06-03

    Submitted Calling databricks code from Azure ADF as a story · 2 points

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15. ed_elliott_asc · 2020-01-20

    Submitted Spark Delta Lake: Updates, Deletes and Time Travel as a story · 2 points

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16. vector_spaces · 2019-10-24

    Submitted How to test ETL processes in production as a story · 2 points

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17. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-07-14

    Submitted How the dotnet Apache Spark driver calls scala spark code from dotnet as a story · 2 points

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18. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-06-13

    Submitted DBA's if you are busy you can offload your work to your developers as a story · 2 points

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19. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-06-03

    Submitted SQL server data modelling: how to choose a clustered index as a story · 2 points

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20. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-05-22

    Submitted How to Debug SQL Server PIVOT's as a story · 2 points

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21. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-04-05

    Submitted Picking the best azure VM / premium disk for IO throughout as a story · 2 points

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22. edcr · 2017-12-03

    Submitted Azure VM / IO Calculator, Show what throughout you can get with an azure IaaS VM as a story · 2 points

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23. ed_elliott_asc · 2021-01-13

    Submitted Git commands to do pretty much everything (then rm -rf and clone) as a story · 1 points

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24. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-10-29

    Submitted Validating upstream data quality in SQL using constraints as a story · 1 points

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25. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-10-16

    Submitted SQL Server code coverage tool as a story · 1 points

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26. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-08-15

    Submitted How do we prove our upstream data for our ETL pipeline is as we expect? as a story · 1 points

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27. ed_elliott_asc · 2019-01-18

    Submitted MSSQL IDE, SSDT is awesome as a story · 1 points

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