Heading back to Seattle
I love visiting Seattle, even in November. Getting to catch up with old friends and meet new people is always...
2009-10-30
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Blog Posts
MCTS: Business Intelligence Developer 2008 & MCITP: Business Intelligence Developer 2008
I am not about to get into a theoretical discussion of whether certifications will benefit you in your career. I...
2009-10-30
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More PASS Activities
As if I needed more.
I’ll be sitting at the blogger table and blogging live (as live as I get) during...
2009-10-30
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OFF-TOPIC: God is Still Good, Even as We Mourn
Kimberly and I went to the high risk doctor's office this morning for the ultrasound. Unfortunately, they realized very quickly...
2009-10-30
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PASS Presentation Rehearsal
My friend Trevor Barkhouse called me up a couple of nights ago and asked if I could host a Live...
2009-10-30
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Running to the PASS Summit
Well, not literally. I’m not going to run to Seattle from Denver, but I’ll be running at the Summit.
Last year...
2009-10-30
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Twitter SQLBingo at the PASS Community Summit
Who are the people in your SQL neighborhood?
Stuart Ainsworth (Blog, Twitter), Brent Ozar (Blog, Twitter), and some other really bright...
2009-10-30
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When Technical Support Fails You
I have had the pleasure of being a vendor, and technical support for both hardware and software products. I know...
2009-10-30
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Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives – In Seattle
If you’re going to spend 3-5 days in Seattle at the PASS Summit it’s worth sampling the local food rather...
2009-10-29
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Don’t Be This Guy
I have a sad story to tell you. Sit down and grab a tissue.
It was 10pm on a cool night...
2009-10-29
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Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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