I Don't Want To Do XX

This Friday Steve is looking for those things you wish you didn't have to handle at work. Let us know what tasks you avoid and would rather hand off to others.

Squared Values

The Book of Redgate: Hours

I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of company I’d want to build if I founded another company. It’s a great place, and...

Updating the Data API Builder

I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to work with the MCP server capabilities. As I was trying to get this working, I...

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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PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder

Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and one of my talks is on the Data API Builder. I want to show how...

RegEx Functions II

The Costs of Multiple Platforms

Lots of organizations use multiple database platforms. Steve notes there is a cost to choosing to allow this.

T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours

It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start writing. I might have written about this before, but it’s a story that sticks with...

Using the SIGN() Function: #SQLNewBlogger

I was trolling the docs and noticed the SIGN() function. I have never written this in production code, but it is an interesting function. This post looks at where...