Off to Jacksonville for SQLSaturday #298
I’m looking forward to returning to Jacksonville after missing a year (or two?) to speak at SQLSaturday #298. I’m driving...
2014-05-09
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Blog Posts
Power Query to HDFS – Remote Name Could Not Be Resolved
I wanted to share a quick resolution I had to a problem with connecting Power Query to data stored in...
2014-05-09 (first published: 2014-05-02)
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Presentation Slides for Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” at the PASS Business Analytics conference. The abstract is below. I...
2014-05-09
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Quick Snapshot
The idea for this script came at times when I was having a project that needed to use snapshots of databases...
2014-05-09
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Reblog: May 2 to May 8
Photo credit – Mike Lynch
A good cure to a creepy doll is a good old post that is still useful. In...
2014-05-09
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Script for database snapshot
The idea for this script came at a time when I was having a project that needed to use snapshots...
2014-05-09
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SQL Saturday #308 – Houston TX Presentation
Tabular Data Visualized by Power View
I am presenting this Saturday 5/10/2014 at 4PM at the Houston TX SQL Saturday Event. ...
2014-05-09
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SSRS #74 – 2008 Cascading bug when you have a middle parameter
Some SSRS reports have a large number of parameters
I recently had a chance to help a co-worker to modify...
2014-05-09
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The Scary DBA Comes to Columbia, SC
*sound of glass crashing* *cue theme music*
(in a wrestling announcer’s shocked voice) “It can’t be! He’s not supposed to be...
2014-05-09
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We’re All Mad Here!
The title says it all!
I just heard that I was selected to present at SQL Saturday in Columbus! I’m excited...
2014-05-09
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why End-User Testing Is Even...
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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