My Thoughts After Completing a Power BI Report Server POC
Last month I worked on a proof of concept testing Power BI Report Server for self-service BI. The client determined...
2017-09-25 (first published: 2017-09-18)
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Blog Posts
Oct 2, 2017 is the GA date for SQL Server 2017
Announced today at Microsoft Ignite, the general availability date is Oct 2, for Windows, Linux, and Docker. Time to get...
2017-09-25
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Query Azure CosmosDB from a SQL Server Linked Server
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Recently I had a requirement to combine data that I already had in SQL Server (2016) with JSON document data already stored in...
2017-09-25
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Saving and restoring session options settings
There are a fair number of options settings. ANSI_NULLS, ARITHABORT, QUOTED_IDENTIFIER, etc. Each session has its own set of configurations....
2017-09-25
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Sign up for Game Night
This year PASS is hosting Game Night as an official event, providing the room and support. Kevin Hill (b | t)...
2017-09-25
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SQL Grouping on Sums (with testing)
I ran across a post recently that I thought was an interesting T-SQL problem. The user wanted to group values...
2017-09-25
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SQL Server Tracking Suspect Pages
Did you know that SQL Server tracks suspect pages and puts the details into the msdb database in a table...
2017-09-25 (first published: 2017-09-19)
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SSIS Package Execution in Azure is Out Now
It’s been a long time coming, but now SQL Server Integration Services is in Public Preview on Azure!
I’ve written about...
2017-09-25
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Talking about Migrating to Azure SQL Database at #MSIgnite this week
This week I will have two talks on migrating existing database to Azure SQL Databases at Microsoft Ignite. If you are there and curious about migrating your existing databases...
2017-09-25
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Talking about Migrating to Azure SQL Database at #MSIgnite this week
Speaking on Migrating to Azure SQL Database at Ignite 2017
This week I will have two talks on migrating existing database...
2017-09-25
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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