I’m starting a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2019-01-11
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I’m delighted to announce I’m selected to speak at the 2019 edition of SQLGrillen DataGrillen. This is a German conference with the catchy tagline “Data, beer und Bratwurst”. I...
2019-01-03
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As I’m writing this it’s actually still 2018, so this is both my last blog post of the year and the first blog post of the new year ??...
2019-01-01
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Yes, you’re reading that right. A book not about the Microsoft BI stack. At a project, Pentaho Data Integration (PDI)...
2018-09-26
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I have a couple of community engagements coming up in the second half of 2018 and I’d like to share...
2018-07-31
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I recently bought the book Factfulness – Ten Reasons we’re wrong about the world – And why things are better than you...
2018-07-23 (first published: 2018-07-15)
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I had SSDT for VS 2017 installed some time ago, but due to some issues I had to uninstall it....
2018-06-19
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On Thursday June 7th I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com (7PM UTC). The topic is Introduction to Biml – Generating your...
2018-05-29
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Techorama 2018 is over, sadly enough. It was a great conference: lots of awesome speakers and sessions and very nicely...
2018-05-25
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We’ve all been there. You made some adjustments to your Tabular model and you deploy it to the production server...
2018-05-15 (first published: 2018-05-08)
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By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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...
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
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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