Consumption Based Architecture for Modern Data Analytics
Throughout many years of working with BI solutions and data warehouse solutions, we have strived to put all the data...
2017-02-09
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Blog Posts
Getting Started with Power BI: Getting Data (Part 2 of 3)
This is part 2 of the Getting Started with Power BI series. Power BI is a powerful reporting and dashboarding...
2017-02-09
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Monitoring SLAs with SQL Monitor Reporting
Proactive Reporting for SQL Server
If you’re a return reader of this blog you know I write often about monitoring and...
2017-02-09 (first published: 2017-02-04)
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Opening the PowerShell ISE from Explorer
This is a cool productivity trip, and one that I ran into by accident. I had heard that I could...
2017-02-09
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Speaking at Triad Developer’s Conference
I am honored to have been recommended by a colleague and selected as a speaker for the Triad Developer’s Conference...
2017-02-09
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SQL: Different ways to generate sequence
There was a question from the op regarding adding a new column to a query output by generating the cyclic...
2017-02-09 (first published: 2017-02-06)
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How the SQL Agent Job schedule_uid broke my heart, and my jobs!
This is something that has caused me some grief in my life as a DBA. I hesitate to call it...
2017-02-08 (first published: 2017-02-03)
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IoT Hub vs. Event Hub
There can sometimes be confusion, in IoT scenarios, between IoT Hub and Event Hub, as they can both be valid...
2017-02-08
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Let NonAdmins Get Logins
I saw a question recently about how to allow some users to see the logins on a server without being...
2017-02-08
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Speaking at SQLSaturday Chicago – 600!
Speaking at SQLSaturday Chicago!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Chicago on March 11th 2017! And wow, 600 SQLSaturdays! This one won’t let you down....
2017-02-08
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Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
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Transaction Log Truncation
In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?
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