Butter in My Coffee and Low Carb Tortillas: Keto Day 2
Hello Dear Reader, just a quick check in, I had originally planned to blog yesterday. However, screen shots of apps...
2019-01-16
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Blog Posts
Butter in My Coffee and Low Carb Tortillas: Keto Day 2
Hello Dear Reader, just a quick check in, I had originally planned to blog yesterday. However, screen shots of apps made for a terrible looking blog.Fortunately I found that...
2019-01-16
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Data Modeling Webcast Rescheduled
Unfortunately, due to a last minute scheduling conflict on my side, we’ve had to reschedule the data modeling webcast with...
2019-01-16
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Data Warehousing Tip #3 – Build thin slice
My third data warehousing tip is to build thin slice. Deliver subsets of valuable functionality. Get feedback and buy in,...
2019-01-16 (first published: 2019-01-07)
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Database modelling in a post-SSMS world: dbForge Studio
A few months ago, Microsoft announced that SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) will no longer include the visual Database Diagrams...
2019-01-16
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Inspector V1.3 hotfix
Unfortunately we discovered a small bug in 1.3, the Database ownership module default warning level was not showing a yellow...
2019-01-16
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Short Circuiting Your Session
It isn’t very often that one would consider a short circuit to be a desired outcome. In SQL Server we...
2019-01-16 (first published: 2019-01-05)
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Watch all my free PASS Summit recordings– and more videos at Pass.org
A magical thing happened this week in the SQL Community Slack (it’s free to join, by the way, sign up here). In the midst of a discussion about the...
2019-01-16
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Approximate COUNT DISTINCT
We all have written queries that use COUNT DISTINCT to get the unique number of non-NULL values from a table....
2019-01-15 (first published: 2019-01-03)
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Creating my own Map Shapefiles for Power BI
(2019-Jan-06) In the past, I used to always rely on shapefiles crafted by others to create my map visualizations in...
2019-01-15 (first published: 2019-01-06)
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Can You Let Go of Determinism
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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