SQLSaturday Atlanta & South Florida 2019
I’ll be in South Florida again this year and will stay over as usual for a couple days of vacation. I see Brent is attending; I’ll have to make...
2019-02-18
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Blog Posts
Upcoming SQLpassion Trainings
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2019-02-18
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Weekly reading #3
New week, new challenges! Great to see you again. We are always here Monday morning! No need to check earlier...
2019-02-18
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Azure Databricks – Introduction (Free Trial)
Microsoft’s Azure Databricks is an advanced Apache Spark platform that brings data and business teams together. In this introductory article, we will look at what the use cases for...
2019-02-17
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Azure Databricks – Introduction (Free Trial)
Microsoft’s Azure Databricks is an advanced Apache Spark platform that brings data and business teams together. In this introductory article,...
2019-02-17
496 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-02-17)
Power BI Desktop February 2019 Feature Summary Preview of new Key Influencers visual and much more… The February release of...
2019-02-17
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Notes From the 2nd SQLOrlando Lunch Meetup
I won’t blog all of these we do, but wanted to capture a few thoughts and then revisit later in...
2019-02-17
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Notes From the Feb 7, 2019 Spacecoast Meetup
I drove over to Melbourne on to speak to the group, hadn’t been over in a while. Quick notes:
8 attendees,...
2019-02-17
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SQL Saturday 828 - T-SQL Basics: Coding for performance
A great experience!
Thanks to all the atendess to my session about T-SQL, for being my first time as a speaker for a SQL Saturday it was good!As I promised,...
2019-02-17
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Power BI Architecture Diagram v4 is now available!
I’ve finally updated my Power BI Architecture Diagram to include some of the new features that are now available and...
2019-02-16
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers