On Saturday May 2 Christine and I are presenting at the Data Community #DataWeekender Europe 2020 online conference, an all-online free virtual popup Microsoft Data Conference hosted by various professionals...
2020-05-02
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Thanks for the 90+ who joined today's PASS Professional Development Virtual Group webinar on Certification Exams Inside Out: How to Think Like a Certification Exam! This was a lot of...
2020-04-03
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Thanks for joining us for the The Business Case for SQL Server 2019 webinar via Spark/Ed today, an overview of new features in and around SQL Server 2019's release but...
2020-03-26
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@william_a_dba what did it take to become a MVP?— kennyb7322 (@kennyb7322) March 3, 2020
This tweet made me pause. I'll explain.Backstory (skip if you're not interested):On Sunday March 1,...
2020-03-17 (first published: 2020-03-09)
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Thanks for joining us at the first annual SQLSaturday Baton Rouge Business Intelligence yesterday, put on by the Baton Rouge Analytics and Intelligence Network (#GOBRAIN!), an official chapter of...
2020-03-08
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The first of a double whammy of SQLSaturday Baton Rouge events over the next 5 months, SQLSatBatonRougeBI is this Saturday, March 7! The organizers of this event, from the...
2020-03-02
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Had the pleasure of presenting to Dr. Ghassan Alkadi and a full house at the Southeastern La. University ACM group. Big thanks to the bright student organizers for inviting...
2020-02-27 (first published: 2020-02-21)
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Excited to launch another new presentation, the first co-presented with my wife, on Ethics in Modern Data. We'll explore the ethical considerations around historical bias, ethics in analysis and...
2020-02-15 (first published: 2020-02-08)
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Hi Santa Fe! My first remote presentation for the Santa Fe SQL Server UG was on "What's New in SQL Server 2019?" Thanks to my friend Adrian Mee for...
2020-02-13
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Working on a SQL 2017 database where an external, non-Microsoft application has direct access to read/write data via the ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server.
They suddenly began to experience...
2020-02-04 (first published: 2020-01-24)
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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...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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