Making a life change
It is with a very heavy heart that I announce I will no longer be working with SQL Server. In ... Continue reading
2019-04-01
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Blog Posts
PASS Community And Mentorship
Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor as defined by Webster’s dictionary. I believe it involved a little more than that. It also involves investing...
2019-04-01
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PASS Community And Mentorship
Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor as defined by Webster’s dictionary. I believe it involved a little more than that. It also involves investing...
2019-04-01
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Weekly reading #9
Good morning, today is 1st April. Maybe it is a good time to say that for example SQL Server was acquired by its main competitor on the market? No,...
2019-03-31
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Dipping into the Cookie Jar
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #112 prompt by Shane O’Neill. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL...
2019-03-29 (first published: 2019-03-12)
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The T-SQL Tuesday #112 Cookie
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again, and I’m writing in response to Shane O’Neil’s invitation about cookies. Read what he asks and...
2019-03-29 (first published: 2019-03-12)
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Export AdventureWorksDW2017 to Excel for a Power BI Demo with Export-Excel
Have you ever wanted to export an entire SQL Server database to Excel file? Yeah, me neither. Until yesterday, when...
2019-03-28 (first published: 2019-03-14)
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Midlands #PASS – April 2019 Meeting with Matt Gordon (@sqlatspeed)
Midlands PASS in Columbia, SC will welcome Microsoft Data Platform MVP Matt Gordon on April 2, 2019. Our meet and greet starts at 5:30 PM with the presentation beginning...
2019-03-28
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Power BI: Where Should My Data Live? Webcast
When you start a Power BI project, you need to decide how and where you should store the data in your dataset. There are three “traditional” options: Imported Model:...
2019-03-28
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The Distributed Replay Utility: Replaying for Real (Where Could It Possibly Go Wrong)?
The Short Answer? (In at least a couple of places) When I first learned about the DRU, I was very excited about the possibilities. I began to play with...
2019-03-28
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Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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