Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 7 – Configuring SharePoint
In this blog post we go over one of the most important parts of the series: running the PowerPivot Configuration...
2013-06-07
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Blog Posts
Helping Database Administrators
Let’s be honest. Database administration is not all that tough. Set up your backups. Test them. Get consistency checks on...
2013-06-07 (first published: 2013-06-04)
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Hide the Ribbon in Power View
There may come a day when you want to embed a Power View report into a PerformancePoint dashboard or a...
2013-06-07
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Notes from SQLSaturday #200
My first time in Philadelphia (and in Malvern, the actual event location). I drove up Friday night for the speaker...
2013-06-07
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Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Data Encryption
Hitting close to home, SC Governor Nikki Haley noted that after the SC Department of Revenue breach was reported, that the IRS didn't...
2013-06-07
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Presenting at SQLSaturday #231 in Cocoa Beach
I’ll be attending the very first SQLSaturday held in Cocoa Beach on July 27, 2013, and doing a brand new...
2013-06-07
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Reblog: May 31 to June 6
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-06-07
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SQL Server 2014!
Just when you thought you got a handle on SQL Server 2012, here comes the next version! SQL Server 2014 was announced...
2013-06-07 (first published: 2013-06-04)
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Train Rides and A Silly Train Story
This past week I took my kids on a train ride from Philadelphia to Washington DC. It was their first...
2013-06-07
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Upcoming SQL Saturday Precons
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be delivering three, one-day preconference seminars this summer prior to three different SQL Saturday...
2013-06-07
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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