Monthly Reflections – April 2014
April was quite a busy month and so apart from the last reflections post and TSQL Tuesday entry Why So Serious...
2014-05-09
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Blog Posts
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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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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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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How Accounting Assignment Help Improved My Academic Performance
I recently used accounting assignment help, and it made a huge difference in my...
This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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