Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 01-31-2023
Hello Dear Reader! After a weekend with a lot of activities, it was a down week here at Casa Balls. Woke up and walked a lot. I'm still not...
2023-02-06
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Blog Posts
Unpivot a matrix with multiple fields on columns in Power Query
I had to do this for a client the other day, and I realized I hadn’t blogged about it. Let’s say you need to include data in a Power...
2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-01-24)
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Daily Coping 3 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to ask other people about things they’ve enjoyed recently I asked the question on Twitter and on Facebook, looking for interesting responses from friends. The...
2023-02-03
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Q&A on certification exams, exam prep, and test-taking skills
Part 2 of 2. This blog post is co-authored by Ajayi Anwansedo, PhD and William Assaf, who met and worked together at The Futures Fund, a STEM non-profit which offers introductory coding and...
2023-02-03 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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Starting the Flyway PoC–Environment
I’ve had a goal to redo my demo environments and get them set up to work for a variety of customers in different places. I decided to do this...
2023-02-03 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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Daily Coping 2 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to challenge negative thoughts and look for the upside. I’m struggling with some negative thoughts outside of work. This year as I coach older girls,...
2023-02-02
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Daily Coping 1 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to decide to lift people up rather than put them down. This is something I am trying to practice more as a coach, pointing out...
2023-02-01
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Goal Progress for Jan 2023
The grade for January is a D. Details below, but just not making a lot of progress in these areas. I set goals at the beginning of the year,...
2023-02-01
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Introducing… Data On Rails!
Data On Rails is a Data On Wheels project designed to give a platform for up and coming data professionals in the data community. This project is the brainchild...
2023-02-01
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Recovering a TDE Database Without the Certificate
If you don’t have the backups of the certificate and private key from the old server, as well as the password used to encrypt the private key backup then...
2023-02-01
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric – What Are They?
By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers