I recently encountered the error, “Unable to validate source query” when trying to refresh the metadata for the tables in my tabular model using Tabular Editor. I immediately googled...
2022-03-14 (first published: 2022-02-22)
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If you’ve been thinking about learning Power BI, I have a wonderful opportunity for you. I will be presenting, along with my friend and colleague Michael Johnson (Blog |...
2022-02-24
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SQLBits is fast approaching, in fact, Training Days start 2 weeks from today, on March 8, 2022. I’ve attended SQLBits before, as well as other large conferences, but I...
2022-02-22
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I received my MVP award letter from Microsoft today. This will make the fourth time I’ve been awarded and I still can’t believe it. I just wanted to help...
2021-07-01
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I am very excited to announce that I will be speaking for Data Saturday #8 – Southwest US, coming up on Saturday, May 15, 2021. I will be delivering...
2021-05-08
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I am super excited about this new version of Data Weekender, coming up on Saturday, May 15, 2021. This will be the third time I have been selected to...
2021-05-08
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This is a non-technical post, but a necessary one for me. If you’re only interested in technical content, that’s okay, you can stop reading, I won’t be offended (heck,...
2020-08-25
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This year I created a new presentation for introducing Azure Data Catalog. I love this product and think it has so much potential and everyone should be using it! ...
2020-06-15 (first published: 2020-05-26)
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I’ve always wanted to go to Australia, in fact we have a trip planned for Martin’s 60th birthday in a couple of years. But with all that’s happened in...
2020-05-18
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With all our in-person events cancelled for the foreseeable future, I was so excited to find that some community folks are not sitting back and waiting for the social...
2020-04-25
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By DataOnWheels
Over the past couple of months, I have started losing my ability to talk...
By Steve Jones
apolytus– n. the moment you realize you are changing as a person, finally outgrowing...
If you've ever wrestled with complex SQL code, you know the drill. Hours spent...
I have a job running each night starting at 4:30AM and usually finishing at...
hi guys, I have a partitioned table AM_ITM_INSTNC_MSS and I want to get...
This is one I haven't seen before. I'm trying to drop a database user...
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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