How Do You Know You’re Good At Your Job?
You’ve been working as a DBA for X number of years. How do you know you’re good at it? Heck,...
2015-07-13
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Blog Posts
PASS Summit 2015 – Guess What?
Quick run the other way! PASS Summit will never be the same! Why? Well, because for the first time in the history of me, I have been selected to speak...
2015-07-13
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PASS Summit 2015 – Guess What?
Quick run the other way!
PASS Summit will never be the same!
Why?
Well, because for the first time in the history of me,...
2015-07-13
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Thoughts on Power Query and SSIS
Recently I received a very interesting question on Twitter from Jeremy (blog | twitter):
@jmarx definitely yes
— Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) July 10,...
2015-07-13
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What was I thinking? Deleting myself from localdb?
Was testing a batch file to add a user to a localdb instance. Assumed that my user as admin on...
2015-07-13
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What was I thinking? Deleting myself from localdb?
Was testing a batch file to add a user to a localdb instance. Assumed that my user as admin on...
2015-07-13
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Power BI General Availability Announced: July 24, 2015
On Friday, James Phillips, Microsoft VP of Business Intelligence, announced the general availability of the new Power BI Business Analytics...
2015-07-12
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Power BI General Availability Announced: July 24, 2015
On Friday, James Phillips, Microsoft VP of Business Intelligence, announced the general availability of the new Power BI Business Analytics...
2015-07-12
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COLUMNSTORE INDEX… DEMO
COLUMNSTORE INDEX
How data is stored in traditional way
For physical storage of a table, its rows are divided into a...
2015-07-11
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Columnstore Indexes – part 59 (“Aggregate Pushdown”)
Continuation from the previous 58 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
SQL Server 2016 brings a number of...
2015-07-11
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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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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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