Azure Every Day, Azure Data Week, and More Azure
As you likely know, I am a Principal Consultant at Pragmatic Works. This year we have been doing some great...
2018-08-25
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DataOnWheels
Power BI Data Security – Power BI Report Server
Power BI Report Server was released as a way to host reports on premises. It was one of the highest...
2018-05-31
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Power BI and Data Security – Audit Logs, Powershell, Power BI and @AngryAnalytics
The following has been reposted with permission from Steve Howard a.k.a. @AngryAnalytics. I have made some formatting changes but the...
2018-05-24
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SQL Saturday – Dallas – May 2018
I was able to present at SQL Saturday Dallas this year. Thanks to those of you who were able to...
2018-05-22
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Cosmos DB for the Data Professional
Cosmos DB is one of the fastest growing Azure services in 2018. As its popularity grows, data professionals are faced...
2018-05-24 (first published: 2018-05-16)
2,850 reads
Power BI Data Security – Sharing in Email
Microsoft has expanded sharing by allowing users to share Power BI content via email. In a previous post, I discussed...
2018-04-02 (first published: 2018-03-22)
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Power BI Data Security – Sharing
Microsoft recently added more sharing capabilities that may change my view on sharing within the enterprise. As with all things...
2018-02-06 (first published: 2018-01-29)
1,643 reads
Power BI and Data Security – App Workspaces and Power BI Apps
Shortly after I published the Power BI Security Sharing Data post in April, Power BI Premium, Power BI Apps, and...
2017-08-07
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Power BI and Data Security – Free User’s Cannot Share, Read Only in Premium
As part of the Power BI Premium release, Microsoft changed how the “free users” in Power BI work within the...
2017-08-04
512 reads
Thoughts about the Microsoft Data Amp Announcements
Microsoft conducted a live event called Microsoft Data Amp to announce a number of key features and releases for SQL...
2017-04-27 (first published: 2017-04-20)
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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...
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