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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it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers