Zero Width Characters

Another bit of miscellany, this one shows how you can use zero width characters to tag/fingerprint data. Reminds me of...

SQL Server on VMware Boot Camp at VMworld 2018

I am extremely proud to announce that I am presenting in conjunction with VMware Corp. an all-day boot camp for...

Finding Inconsistent Key Values–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Friday Reading 2018-07-20

Haven’t posted one of these for a while! It’s good to have some time back to be able to read/write.
I’ve...

My #SQLCareer Day–July 19

I’ve asked for #SQLCareer posts, and I haven’t done any. My job isn’t a data platform DBA or developer, but...

Silly Photos at Work

Someone I stumbled across this picture of @brento on my drive.

This might be the best one:

And this was a good...

The need for having both a DW and cubes

I have heard some people say if you have a data warehouse, there is no need for cubes (when I say “cubes” I am referring to tabular and multidimensional OLAP...

T-SQL Tuesday #104: Just Can’t Cut That Cord

We all have our favorite scripts, tools or utilities. Those are the things that help make our jobs easier. Some...

Backup and Restore operations with SQL Server 2017 Docker containers using SQL Operations Studio

In this 18th article of the series, we’ll discuss the concepts of database backup-and-restore operations with SQL Server 2017 Docker containers...

Code I Can’t Live Without–T-SQL Tuesday #104

Bert Wagner has a good invitation this month, a T-SQL Tuesday question about code, specifically code you can’t live without....