Power BI Field Parameters and Slowly Changing Dimensions
Power BI field parameters are a new feature in Power BI Desktop, and it’s one of the best of the past months. In short, Power BI field parameters allow...
2022-06-17
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Blog Posts
Power BI: Calculating Network Days in M Custom Columns
Knowing the days between events is a fairly common reporting request because a lot of reporting is created to track SLA’s (service level agreement) and other KPI’s (key performance...
2022-06-17 (first published: 2022-06-03)
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Seeding an Availability Group Replica from Snapshot
Background If you’ve been using Availability Groups, you’re familiar with the replica seeding (sometimes called initializing, preparing or data sychronization) process. Seeding is a size of operation-based data, copying...
2022-06-17 (first published: 2022-05-26)
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Speaking at dataMinds Connect 2022
I’m very excited to announce I’ll be giving a session at the 15th edition of dataMinds Connect (in the beginning it was called SQL Server Day(s)). It will be...
2022-06-17 (first published: 2022-06-16)
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Azure CLI – Deleting Resources
Azure CLI is really handy for all sorts of tasks. When I build solutions, POCs and environments and I want to tear down the resources I like to use...
2022-06-16
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Daily Coping 16 Jun 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-06-16
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DBCC CHECKDB REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS with Example
The T-SQL DBCC, acronym for “Database Console Command”, is a command that performs several types of tasks. These tasks are mainly of the validation and maintenance type. Some of the...
2022-06-16
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Migrate Amazon RDS for SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Applications are closely dependent on the databases and application evolution is frequently connected with an upgrade of the application database. Database migration is process of moving customer’s database from...
2022-06-16
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Opening your SQL Backup Folder using Powershell
Sometimes I find remembering where a particular server sends its backups to a nightmare. You might have servers backing up to different locations, you might have different locations for...
2022-06-16
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The Impact of Change
I started this summary on LinkedIn. Check out that article here. I only used LinkedIn to introduce what is happening, if you’re interested in learning more keep reading. First,...
2022-06-16
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Blogs
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
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Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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