Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking (Part 3: On or Off premises)
[2017-May-08] Listening to a car radio with many different talk shows available, it comes more often to my mind, that...
2017-05-08
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Data Adventures
DAX calculations with hierarchies: Set the order straight.
[2017-Apr-30] If you have ever tried to create calculated measures in SSAS Tabular/ Power BI models where different levels of...
2017-05-10 (first published: 2017-04-30)
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SSIS Web Service Task: misleading role of WSDL file
[2017-Mar-31] You can call one of your web service methods in SSIS package using a .NET script task or you can just...
2017-03-31
3,522 reads
External SQL files vs. Stored procedures in SSIS development
[2017-Feb-21] I'm creating this particular blog post more for myself to remember and use it as a reference to related discussions...
2017-02-23 (first published: 2017-02-21)
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How to compare two SSAS databases with a custom MDX query
[2017-Jan-29] It came as a request from one of my customers where I had worked as a consultant to quickly compare...
2017-01-29
2,775 reads
Open Data is like a soup
[2016-Nov-04] Open data is like a soup, some people like it hot (or made with all the latest updates); some people...
2016-11-04
617 reads
Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking (Part 2: Predicting the Future)
[2016-Oct-18] I read a book one time about the importance of using visual aids in teaching. They also used a well...
2016-10-28 (first published: 2016-10-18)
1,754 reads
Historical Reports vs. Predictive analytics: Rear view mirror look vs. Forward-looking view. Really?
[2016-Sep-30] Working with reports based on historical data is like driving a car while looking in the rear view mirror. I heard...
2016-09-30
1,583 reads
Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking?
[2016-Aug-31] Someone said a picture is worth a thousand words and this is true that in most cases a visual representation...
2016-08-31
1,170 reads
Power BI: If you have a Cloud of Words, let them Fly!
[2016-July-31] Last week was my 2nd time participating at the local Toronto Open Data meetup (https://www.meetup.com/opentoronto/). The audience of this meetup...
2016-08-02 (first published: 2016-07-31)
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Blogs
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
Forums
Stored Procedures for Server-Level Object and Column Search
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Databricks Genie Spaces for SQL Analysts: Natural Language Querying Without Leaving Your Data Platform
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The Costs of Multiple Platforms
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers