Power BI: Refreshable Excel Files in PBI Service
Ever since Excel made its debut in the 1980’s, it has been used as a quick way for end users to input and manipulate data on their own without...
2024-06-03 (first published: 2024-05-14)
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Blog Posts
Sharpen Your SQL Skills: June’s Challenge Awaits!
This June, LearnSQL is throwing down the gauntlet with a fresh SQL Practice challenge. Dive into a real-world gym database and help Christine, the gym's manager, wrangle her data....
2024-06-01
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A New Word: desanté
desanté – n. the brooding delirium of being sick, which makes time slow to a trickly and turns even the most pathetic of tasks into monumental struggles, until the...
2024-05-31
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Denver Dev Day – Best Practices for Database Deployments Resources
I delivered a talk today on database deployment best practices at the Denver Dev Days 2024. This is a great event, and I have been lucky enough to attend...
2024-05-31
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Friday Basics: RPO and RTO
I did a post last month titled RTO and RPO are myths unless you've tested recovery, but I only briefly covered what RPO and RTO are. This post goes...
2024-05-31 (first published: 2024-05-10)
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T-SQL Tuesday #174: Your Favorite Job Interview Question
My blog has been quiet lately. I recently wrapped up a master’s program (more details on that soon, once the formal graduation is behind me) and have been immersed...
2024-05-31 (first published: 2024-05-14)
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Full-Text Search in SQL Server: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction Full-Text Search in SQL Server is a feature that provides linguistic search capabilities against text data in SQL Server tables. It allows for searching of character-based data types...
2024-05-29 (first published: 2024-05-13)
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I like KQL and I like managing my test data – are they mates?
Test Data Management (TDM) is essential in software development to ensure your application runs smoothly and reliably across different environments. When deploying applications in Azure, Test Data Management can...
2024-05-29 (first published: 2024-05-13)
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What happens when we drop a column on a SQL Server table? Where's my space?
This article was initially posted on SQLServerCentral @ 2024-04-26.
Short answer: The column is marked as ‘deleted’ and will stop being visible/usable.
But, most importantly - The record/table size will remain...
2024-05-29
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Planview Portfolios REST API with ADF – Fetching the Access Token
In the introduction of this blog post series, I explained the use case: extracting data from the Planview Portfolios RESET API using Azure Data Factory. Any tool that can...
2024-05-28 (first published: 2024-05-26)
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
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