Yesterday I was facing an annoying issue. I have two Power BI datasets. Both connect to the same Azure SQL database, but with different SQL users (they have both...
2022-09-28 (first published: 2022-09-13)
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The summer holiday is almost over, and this means conference season will be back in full swing again. I’ll be speaking at a couple of events in the second...
2022-08-23
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I have a blog post series about some nice features in the Snowflake cloud data warehouse; one of them is about the IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM predicate. I was...
2022-08-17 (first published: 2022-08-04)
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I’m giving a free webinar for MSSQLTips.com at 11th of August 2022. The abstract: When building a data warehouse (DWH) in the Microsoft Data Platform stack, you typically have...
2022-08-02
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I was reading a SharePoint List using the “Get Items” activity in an Azure Logic App. I explain how you can create such a Logic App in the blog...
2022-07-15 (first published: 2022-06-27)
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Power BI field parameters are a new feature in Power BI Desktop, and it’s one of the best of the past months. In short, Power BI field parameters allow...
2022-06-17
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I’m very excited to announce I’ll be giving a session at the 15th edition of dataMinds Connect (in the beginning it was called SQL Server Day(s)). It will be...
2022-06-17 (first published: 2022-06-16)
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… with this one weird little trick 🙂 Sorry for the clickbait, but you can actually save a lot on ADF pricing if you design your pipelines carefully. And...
2022-06-01 (first published: 2022-05-11)
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At a data warehouse project I’m using a couple of Logic Apps to do some lightweight data movements. For example: reading a SharePoint list and dumping the contents into...
2022-05-25 (first published: 2022-04-20)
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You can find my slidedeck for the session “Introduction to Azure Data Factory” on Github:https://github.com/KoenVerbeeck/SessionMaterials All demos given in the session are explained in the ADF tutorial at MSSQLTips.com.
The...
2022-05-25
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By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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