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Data Viz in Fabric Notebooks

Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore and communicate data. When Power BI was first created, it was used in situations that...

2025-12-08 (first published: )

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PASS Data Summit 2025 Recap

Last week, I attended the annual PASS Data Summit in Seattle. This was the fourth year of the event since Red Gate took over stewardship of PASS after that...

2025-12-05 (first published: )

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PASS Keynote Shots

Rodney Kidd took some great shots of the keynote and published an album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127113040@N04/albums/72177720330695911 A few of my favorites: Here’s one of the 8 ball and keynote (and...

2025-12-04

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Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees

TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree. I've built a web tool that helps visualize this tree as a learning exercise.
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2025-12-03 (first published: )

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Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule

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Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...

Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2

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Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger

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