Microsoft Fabric – the first look
Microsoft has just announced Microsoft Fabric during the Microsoft Build conference. This is a unified analytic solution of the era of AI. Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end, unified analytics...
2023-05-24
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Blog Posts
Setting up a Local http Server with Node
Setting up a local web server was something that I haven’t done in a long time and this was really easy. This post shows how to do this with...
2023-05-24
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What Backups Are In This File?–#SQLNewBlogger
I had a question on multiple backups in a file and had to check my syntax. This post shows how to see which backups are in a file. Note:...
2023-05-24 (first published: 2023-05-10)
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Statistics Parser
Using Statistics Parser to easily read output from STATISTICS IO and STATISTICS TIME.
2023-05-23
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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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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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