Have you heard the news about the new Power BI Project files? Okay, maybe not news anymore since it was announced over a year ago. Just in case you...
2024-07-02 (first published: 2024-07-01)
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Super excited to share that I have been selected to speak at Data Weekender 6.5 on Saturday, November 4, 2023. I will be presenting my session, Can Microsoft Purview...
2023-10-23
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Lately, I’ve been having to create items in Power BI, that I haven’t had to do for a while, this week it was a Time table. Of course, I...
2023-08-28 (first published: 2023-08-11)
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In today’s world of wanting to automate everything, specifically, automating your CI/CD process for your Power BI datasets and dataset refreshes, you need to understand your options when it...
2023-08-09 (first published: 2023-07-24)
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A little background for those new to using Power BI and Data Gateways. If the data source for your Power BI dataset lives on-prem or behind a private endpoint,...
2023-08-02 (first published: 2023-07-17)
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I am so happy to announce that I have joined the team at Fortified Data. I have just completed my first week (well, four days) and I feel like...
2023-07-23
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Some of you may know that I went to work for BlueGranite a little over four years ago. It was humbling to be part of such a talented team...
2023-07-14
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I am super excited to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Server Live! in Orlando in November. I have selected to present two sessions, which...
2023-07-03
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I am excited to announce that I have been selected to speak for the Future Data Driven Summit 2023. This is a free online conference, on Wednesday, 27-September-2023, for...
2023-07-03
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I am saddened to report that I will not be able to attend SQLBits in person this year as originally planned. I was involved in a terrible car accident...
2023-02-24
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By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers