Presenting at the kickoff Lynchburg Va SQL User Group meeting

There’s a new SQL Server user group starting up over in Lynchburg, VA. It’s first meeting is February 27, 2014...

The CHOOSE keyword

G’day,
I love coming across features of SQL that I’ve not used before and one happened today – the CHOOSE statement – introduced...

The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2014 #programming

The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2014
As long as we have been doing our programming language rankings here at RedMonk,...

Transact-SQL query to obtain basic information about partitioned tables

Here is the simple query that returns basic information about all tables in a database that are partitioned:

SELECT SCHEMA_NAME([schema_id]) AS...

What Is a Throwout Bearing?

A throwout bearing is a part of an automotive clutch system that temporarily disengages the engine from the manual transmission while shifting....

Deploying a Hadoop Cluster on Amazon EC2 with HDP2 #bigdata #hadoop

In this post, we’ll walk through the process of deploying an Apache Hadoop 2 cluster on the EC2 cloud service...

Million Dollar Buggy Club The baddest swamp buggies in the south! #4×4

The baddest swamp buggies in the south!
Formed in 2009 the Million Dollar Buggy club was originally comprised of 10 members...

Comparing Columns In Power Query

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about comparing the contents of entire tables in Power Query, and a...

Get data from Facebook with #Excel 2013, #PowerPivot and #PowerQuery

Facebook graph is the primary way for external apps to talk with Facebook. This allows you to get all the...

Hello...

This is my blog. Here, I’d like to say "Hello" and wish myself many posts. I’ll be mainly posting about...