The affordable self-service BI revolution has started.
I am officially announcing that I have now become an independent consultant and business owner. Becoming independent has always been...
2012-01-30
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Afterthoughts: IT Pro Camp Orlando 2012
This past Saturday January 21, 2012 I had the opportunity to speak at my first IT Pro Camp in Orlando,...
2012-01-24
877 reads
Codeplex: SSIS Community Tasks and Components
I recently bumped into this very exhaustive list of SSIS tasks, components and samples in CodePlex http://ssisctc.codeplex.com. The list is maintained by...
2011-12-14
1,311 reads
Master Data Services Error: Resolving from a long-running stucked Staging Batch with Status “Queued to Clear” or “Not Running”
In some ocassions, you may run into a runaway, long-running or stucked staging batch with Master Data Services in SQL Server 2008...
2011-12-14
1,578 reads
SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services Error: The required .svc handler mappings are not installed in IIS.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC 0) has a confirmed issue with Master Data Services configuration. The following error...
2011-11-29
1,739 reads
SQL Saturday 86 BI Edition Tampa 2011: Afterthoughts
Wow! Just Wow! That’s all I can say to describe how great SQL Saturday 86 was on November 5th in Tampa,...
2011-11-16
1,280 reads
The CASE of the missing non-NULL T-SQL Error: None of the result expressions in a CASE specification can be NULL.
Recently, while doing some data scrubbing for a customer I got an interesting error in SSMS with one of my...
2011-11-16
1,877 reads
GiveCamp Tampa 2011
This past weekend I participated at GiveCamp Tampa 2011 (http://www.givecamptampabay.org/) as part as the Worldwide GiveCamp (http://www.givecamp.org) weekend sponsored by...
2011-10-24
1,019 reads
Todo lo que debes saber sobre SSIS en 1 hora!
Gracias a lo asistentes de mi charla Todo lo que debes saber sobre SSIS en 1 hora! en el evento...
2011-10-20
1,318 reads
MDS Error: MDMMemberStatus does not de-activate members through the StgMemberAttribute table
Master Data Services provides a way of de-activating entity members using the StgMemberAttribute table as described in Books On Line...
2011-10-11
1,011 reads
Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
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