Speaking at SQLServerDays 2015 in Belgium
There are a number of high quality events in Europe that are being run by the local volunteers or user...
2015-07-15
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Blog Posts
SQL HA and DR Training in Oklahoma City
I’ll be doing a precon for SQLSaturday #422 in Oklahoma City on August 28th, 2015 titled “Creating a High Availability and Disaster...
2015-07-15
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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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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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Blogs
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Steve Jones
I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...
How to Measure AI Value: A 6-Branch AI Maturity Model for Use Cases and Agents
Your AI is busy. But do you know what it's worth? Most companies can...
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