My Office Setup
At the PASS Summit a few weeks ago, I had a great chat with some folks about our home office setups. More and more of us are working from...
2022-12-16 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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Tim Mitchell
- Interests: SQL Server, Data Warehousing, ETL, .NET development
- Twitter: @tim_mitchell
- Website: https://www.TimMitchell.net
Returning to PASS Summit
In just a couple of weeks, the PASS Summit will return to Seattle, Washington. This one will be extra special, since it’s going to be the first in-person Summit...
2022-10-31
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Creating a Generic SSRS Report
Creating useful reports is part art and part science. On one end of the spectrum, you have visually appealing and highly customized reports and dashboards that are truly works...
2022-04-13 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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What Stephen King Taught Me About Data Storytelling
I’ve been a fan of macabre fiction writer Stephen King since I first picked up The Dark Half sometime in the early 1990s. Since then I’ve read dozens of...
2022-03-20
3 reads
Let’s Talk About Your Development Environment
Let’s talk about your development environment. Specifically, I’d like to chat with you about the virtual space where your data architecture team, software developers, and information curators do their...
2021-06-07
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Let’s Talk About Your Development Environment
Let’s talk about your development environment. Specifically, I’d like to chat with you about the virtual space where your data architecture team, software developers, and information curators do their...
2021-06-07
1 reads
Connecting to SharePoint Lists with SSIS
SharePoint lists are popular and simple tools for storing modestly-sized discrete sets of data. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) includes a source component to allow reading data from SharePoint...
2021-01-15 (first published: 2021-01-09)
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Moving On From PASS. What’s Next?
The COVID-19 global pandemic was by far the biggest influencer of 2020. This virus has cost over 1.8 million lives worldwide, and has upended normal life and commerce for...
2021-01-12
31 reads
Moving On From PASS. What’s Next?
The COVID-19 global pandemic was by far the biggest influencer of 2020. This virus has cost over 1.8 million lives worldwide, and has upended normal life and commerce for...
2021-01-12
Connecting to SharePoint Lists with SSIS
SharePoint lists are popular and simple tools for storing modestly-sized discrete sets of data. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) includes a source component to allow reading data from SharePoint...
2021-01-09
Blogs
WIT/DEI Mental Health and Wellness Day Challenge to Present
Back in December 2019, I started presenting my session on mental health with lots...
Daily Coping 24 Mar 2023–The Final Tip
By Steve Jones
Today’s coping tip is to discover the joy in the simple things in life....
Experimenting with RedisGraph on Docker and Windows
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting a bit with graph databases, trying to learn more about...
Forums
Slow performance when processing a JSON file in Azure
We have a stored procedure that can load up a JSON file and process...
dbatools - Connect-DbaInstance
I have my SQL servers name, UserID (UID) and Password (PWD) in a table...
Extracting the string before and after the given character
Hi All, I want to extract the string before and after the given characters....
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