A New Word: Attriage

attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel about someone – not even trying to quench the flames anymore, but lighting other fires...

Architecting Power BI Solutions in Microsoft Fabric

Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Power BI are used by a wide range of professionals, creating diverse and complex scenarios, and finding the right solution can be daunting, especially when multiple approaches exist for a single use case. The author distills his 17 years of experience on various data platform technologies in this book to walk you through various Power BI usage scenarios.

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I Can't Make You Learn

Steve believes that his career and life have become better as he learns more everything. It's the key to improvement.

Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego

I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I sure hope you want to learn. It’s been great for my career and it will...

A Quick Second Opinion

Communication is hard, and it's something most of us can learn to do better. Steve notes that using an LLM for tasks will also help you learn to communicate better.

Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger

A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a performance metric. In this case, they were wanting to use Redgate Monitor and custom metrics,...

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No Shortcuts for the SQLCMD Batch Terminator: #SQLNewBlogger

I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve never tried it, but the batch separator has to be separate, which I’ll show. Another...

T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …

This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound big, but this is a monthly party (started by Adam Machanic). We have 12 blog...