Are People’s Food Habits Changing? A Power BI Analysis
A few years ago on road trips I’d happily grab whatever I can find to eat at service stations. That...
2015-07-14 (first published: 2015-07-07)
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Blog Posts
Automating SSIS Design Pattern: Load Flat File Into Staging Table
Delimited flat files are commonly used to move data from one system to the other.
In this two part series published...
2015-07-14
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Be a PASS NomCom Candidate!
Today is the last day to submit your name as a candidate for the NomCom. If you’re a PASS member...
2015-07-14
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Columnstore Indexes – part 60 (“3 More Batch Mode Improvements in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 59 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is dedicated to some...
2015-07-14
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Cortana Analytics Suite
Yesterday at the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference in Orlando Microsoft announced the Cortana Analytics Suite, which is a new package...
2015-07-14
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Live Query Statistics In SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.0
Hi friends, today we will learn another new feature Live Query Statistics which gets introduced in SQL Server 2016. It’s...
2015-07-14
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Looking Back at a Sabbatical – One Year Later
Last year at this time I was nearing the end of my sabbatical. I’ve been using the Timehop app on...
2015-07-14
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Power BI Confusion
Just a quick post on some Power BI material that I believe should reach as many people as possible. I get...
2015-07-14
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SQL Server and Defaults
What is that default setting? SQL server does a fantastic job of having numerous settings at the server level and at the database level predefined for you. Additionally, the...
2015-07-14
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SQL Server and Defaults
What is that default setting?
SQL server does a fantastic job of having numerous settings at the server level and at...
2015-07-14
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Blogs
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...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
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