New Logo, More Family Contributions

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Kristyna and I were looking for an update to our logo prior our sponsorship and speaking at the Minnesota SQL Server User Group (PASSMN) in September 2020. I had...

2020-09-03

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Your First Databricks Notebook

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On August 4, 2020, I presented this on the weekly Pragmatic Works webinar series. You can view that presentation here. As part of that presentation, I committed to give...

2020-08-26 (first published: 2020-08-13)

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Congratulations to Pragmatic Works – Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalists, Again

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Pragmatic Works has done it again. Microsoft has recognized us for our work this year with two finalist awards — Power BI and PowerApps and Power Automate. This recognizes...

2020-07-14

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Power BI DAX Dynamic Measures

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Dynamic measures are an effective way to avoid crowding your report with different versions of the same visual without using bookmarks. No disrespect to the versatility of bookmarks, but...

2020-06-29 (first published: 2020-06-16)

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PASSMN June 2020 – Data Classification with SQL Server and Azure

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I presented at the virtual Minnesota SQL Server User Group meeting on June 16, 2020. The topic was data classification with SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL Database. Data...

2020-06-17

Data On Wheels – Merging Two Great Minds

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I am very excited to announce that my daughter, Kristyna Hughes, will be joining the Data On Wheels team. Our fates and paths to this point seem parallel though...

2020-06-08

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Starting and Stopping SQL Server with PowerShell

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Have you ever had this issue? You are trying to explore new features of SQL Server or you want to install the latest version for some testing, but SQL...

2020-02-17 (first published: 2020-02-10)

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Power BI, Dataflows, CDM, and Dynamics 365 – My Journey

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My company, Pragmatic Works, is working through a Dynamics 365 migration. As part of that migration, we need reports. We have made the decision, seemingly obvious given who we...

2019-08-14

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Power Platform Conference – 7/23-24/2019

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Pragmatic Works is hosting a 2-day Power Platform online conference. If you are unable to get out to onsite conference but need some help with Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, or...

2019-07-15

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It’s Been a While …

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Last Post – SQL Saturday MN 2018 When last I wrote, it was after I spoke at SQL Saturday in Minnesota. I co-presented a pre-con with Josh Owen. Prior...

2019-04-30

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