#PowershellBasics: Bulk insert.
In my last post I talked about invoke-sqlcmd. It’s a nice easy way to run a query or a .sql ... Continue reading
2021-10-04 (first published: 2021-09-21)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 4 Oct 2021
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...
2021-10-04
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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp just had a really bad Monday
It’s the end of the work day here on the east coast and I see that the Facebook is still unavailable. Facebook acknowledged the problem in the following two...
2021-10-04
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Getting Up and Running with Dapr
I’ve heard about Dapr a few times from developer friends, but hadn’t really understood it that well. I had a webinar coming up, so I decided to spend a...
2021-10-04 (first published: 2021-09-22)
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PASS Data Community Summit 2021: I’m Excited!
I sincerely hope this isn’t the first time you’re hearing about the Pass Data Community Summit that’s coming up in just a few weeks on November 8-12, 2021. But,...
2021-10-04
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Daily Coping 1 Oct 2021
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...
2021-10-01
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Data Platform products for Microsoft gaps
Microsoft has a ton of data platform-related products, but there are certain areas where they either don’t have a product or what they have is limited and you need...
2021-10-01 (first published: 2021-09-22)
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Lambda Architecture in data systems and possible meaning of this name
(2021-Sep-21) There is one scene in "The Core" movie that I really like when two geophysicists were asked to explain certain anomalies that were projected on a computer screen. One of...
2021-10-01 (first published: 2021-09-21)
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Power BI: Adding Columns to a Published Data Model using the XMLA Endpoint & TMSL
Goal of this demo: Update a Power BI model schema by adding a column to the data model without opening a PBIX file and ensure the scheduled refresh still...
2021-10-01
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Daily Coping 30 Sep 2021
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...
2021-09-30
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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