Marc Beacom

Marc Beacom – MCTS (BI, Dev), Principal Architect and Owner at DawaBI, has over 15 years of technical and business experience. DawaBI focuses on Making Data-Driven Decisions Possible by delivering user friendly and scalable data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. Marc is an active volunteer within the community and currently is co-organizer of the Colorado GiveCamp, served a year as a PASS Regional Mentor and served five years on the leadership board for the Denver and Colorado Springs SQL Server User Groups.

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SQL Server Source Control on a $0 Budget

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Don’t Treat Your Data Catalog Like a Data Museum

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Fantasy Football 2025

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The thread for the league in 2025. Players from last year have priority.

String or Binary Truncation Error Strange Behavior (SQL 2019)

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Forgot I posted a similar issue back in 2020, String or Binary Truncation Error...

Transactional Replication from Read replica

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If I have Read replica (in Azure SQL MI), can it be used as...

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Question of the Day

Replacing a Null

What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2022? 

DECLARE @value INT = NULL;
SELECT ISNULL(@value, 100.5) AS Result;

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