Statistics Parser
Using Statistics Parser to easily read output from STATISTICS IO and STATISTICS TIME.
2023-05-23
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Blog Posts
Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 05-15-2023 The Graduate & the Very BIG Week
MY WILL, MY BUG, MY GRADUATEJust a little under 18 and one half years ago, William came into my life. There are a lot of words to describe a new...
2023-05-23
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How to refresh Power BI desktop data
Recently we faced the issue on one project to refresh power BI desktop file to update structures.
There could be various reasons why you would like to automate PB desktop...
2023-05-22 (first published: 2023-05-09)
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SSAS Tabular Error – A device attached to the system is not functioning
I’m working on SSAS Tabular project and suddenly i got following error when I even try to connect to SSAS.
Messages:
“The following system error occurred: A device attached to the...
2023-05-22
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T-SQL Tuesday 162 : Data Science and ChatGPT
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Tomaz Kastrun – his call is to write about how we’ve used ChatGPT, and what are ethical issues, if any, that we...
2023-05-22 (first published: 2023-05-09)
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A New Word: Trumspringa
trumspringa – n. the longing to wander off your career path in pursuit of a simple life, which is just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts...
2023-05-19
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Azure Storage Account
This blog post aims to provide an overview of Azure Storage Accounts. It will explain how to create them and use them effectively. Azure Storage Account Azure Storage Account...
2023-05-19 (first published: 2023-05-03)
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Reflections on My First-Ever Presentation, Fifteen Years Later
May 3rd represents a small but significant milestone in my career. It was 15 years ago today, on May 3, 2008, when I delivered my first public technical presentation....
2023-05-19 (first published: 2023-05-03)
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Speaking at SQL Saturday South Florida 2023
I have never been to the South Florida SQL Saturday. There have been a bunch of events, but for some reason I’ve never been to one. I was excited...
2023-05-19
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Backup Encryption in SQL Server
In this post we look at how you work with the Backup Encryption Feature in SQL Server.
2023-05-18
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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