Minnesota BI User Group – Powering Up HDInsight with Power BI (December 2015)
On Wednesday, December 16, I presented on this topic at the Minnesota BI User Group. This session is based on...
2016-02-04
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Blog Posts
Positivity
I’m sitting in the classroom of SQL Cruise listening to Tim Ford (b|t) explain mechanisms for monitoring indexes. It’s a...
2016-02-04
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PowerShell Pester – "The script failed due to call depth overflow."
This error caught me out. I am putting this post here firstly to remind me if I do it again...
2016-02-04 (first published: 2016-01-31)
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Recertifying SQL Server 2012 MCSE with Microsoft Virtual Academy
Do people still get certified? I don’t hear much about it in the SQL community these days so I asked...
2016-02-04
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SQL Server 2016: configure TempDB during installation
Proper configuration of the TempDB system database is crucial for optimal performance of a SQL Server instances during heavy loads. The recommended...
2016-02-04 (first published: 2016-01-31)
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Blogger questions: What if someone else wrote about the same subject?
I have a moderately popular blog. In part because I syndicate but largely (in my opinion) because I write a...
2016-02-03
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Limitation of In-Memory OLTP in SQL Server 2016 – TRUNCATE table not supported
Hi friends, another limitation that we will discussed is TRUNCATE table command is not supported with memory optimized tables. Let’s...
2016-02-03
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Scaling Azure SQL Database
One of the advantages Azure SQL Database has over on-prem SQL Server is the ease in which it can scale. I’ll...
2016-02-03
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SQL Server Principals – Back to Basics
Prelude in SQL Minor
Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to...
2016-02-03 (first published: 2016-01-28)
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SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 – Part 1
This first post of 3 takes a quick peek at SSRS 2016 using the Community Technical Preview (CTP) 3.2. I...
2016-02-03
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Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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Checking the Error Log II
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