Daily Coping 1 Mar 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...
2021-03-01
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Blog Posts
Power BI and a Star Schema
I sometimes get asked from customers if they should use a star schema or should they use one large single table/flatfile for their dataset in Power BI. The answer...
2021-03-01
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Power BI Monthly Digest – February 2021
In this month’s Power BI Digest Matt and I will again guide you through some of the latest and greatest Power BI updates this month.
2021-03-01 (first published: 2021-02-23)
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Updated Pluralsight Course – Kubernetes Installation and Configuration Fundamentals
My updated course “Kubernetes Installation and Configuration Fundamentals” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right...
2021-03-01
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Upgrading Durable Function Extension of my Azure Function App
(2021-Feb-22) With more applications and services being placed into a vendor cloud environment, it does require almost no effort to manage and maintain the infrastructure these applications and services are...
2021-03-01 (first published: 2021-02-23)
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Viewing the Statistics Objects Used to Create an Execution Plan
Use trace flag 8666 to view the statistics objects that the optimizer used to generate your execution plan.
2021-03-01
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A Biography Template for New Presenters
Presenting is difficult, and you already know that. It is also incredibly rewarding and beneficial to your career, but that’s not important for this post. As difficult as it...
2021-02-28
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ADF: Querying JSON documents
In my previous blog post I talked about how to read from an XML Webervice and use xpath to query the XML on the expressions side of things. You...
2021-02-26
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Creating presentations with Reveal and Github pages
I really don’t like Powerpoint. I’ll do pretty much anything to avoid writing a presentation in it. Thankfully for the last few years there’s been a service called GitPitch...
2021-02-26 (first published: 2021-02-21)
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Daily Coping 26 Feb 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...
2021-02-26
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Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
Forums
Warning: Could not open global shared memory to communicate with performance DLL
Hi everyone I am getting below warning when I run SSIS: Warning: 0x80049304 at...
Let's Talk Community Events!
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that one limitation in replication
Hi as shown below a replication target requires a primary key. if we want...
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Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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