100 Video and Why BI Projects fail
We thought that our 100 YouTube video on our Katie and Emil YouTube Channel should be a special one... so...
2013-01-14
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1h SSIS Webinar
1h Free SSIS Webinar - 7th of Feb 2013
We recently submitted a session for SQL Bits and SQL Saturday (UK) and...
2013-01-14
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SSIS Precedence Constraint Tutorial
Recently we decided to create a series of videos for our SSIS Precedence Constraint Tutorial which is part of our...
2012-12-26 (first published: 2012-12-18)
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Katie and Emil come back
We are back on SQL Server Central... This is our first post after a while; also a test to see...
2012-12-02
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Video Enable PowerPivot Add-in
This is one of our first PowerPivot video tutorials and this short 1 minute tutorial we show how to enable...
2012-07-30
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reconfigure vs reconfigure with override
You can change server properties of SQL Server using sp_confgure and to "save" it you need to use reconfigure. In...
2012-07-28
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transparent data encryption steps
In this blog post I show steps that are needed to enable Transparent Data Encyption on a SQL Server 2012...
2012-07-28
1,580 reads
Introducing PowerView with Excel 2013
In this blog post we show video that introduces PowerView with Excel 2013. You provide an overview of the tool...
2012-07-25
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SSIS aggregate transformation
In this SSIS 2012 tutorial we will show you how to use data flow Aggregate Transformation and we will use...
2012-07-25
1,760 reads
PowerPivot diagram view missing
Some of you might be wondering why Diagram View is missing in some PowerPivot windows. This is related to Microsoft...
2012-07-24
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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