Speaking at SQLSaturday Omaha

In just one week, I’ll be traveling west to Omaha to speak at SQLSaturday there.  It’s been a while since...

SQL Sentry Grows in the UK and Beyond

Announcing two new UK-based SQL Sentry global technology evangelists. Please help me welcome John Martin and Richard Douglas.
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SSDT-BI and Visual Studio Online

Recently I had to create a new business intelligence project at a client. However, there was no source control present....

Twitter Analysis with #PowerBI & Plus One

Earlier this week Christopher Finlan put together this awesome Datazen dashboard using Plus One. Christopher has been doing a lot...

Analytics Platform System (APS) AU4 released

The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU4),...

Baltimore Crime Report Using Power BI

As part of my quest for using data to find answers to everyday questions using Power BI – after analyzing baby names...

Hekaton - Creating a Database :- 2

With a Gentle intro done on Hekaton - In Memory tables, let us continue exploring further. Today, we will quickly create a database...

Loading XML Data–CONVERT Option 2

I was playing around with some XML lately, and had to load a file that looked like this::

I ran a...

Professional Development – A Recipe for Success

Originally appearing at ForITPros.com. Joe Webb’s father-in-law spent most of his adult life as a cardiologist. That’s a highly specialized and highly technical area in the field of medicine that...

Reading Your Execution Plans

I’m putting the finishing touches on the all day seminar on execution plans that I’ll be putting on at DevConnections this...