Consumption Based Architecture for Modern Data Analytics
Throughout many years of working with BI solutions and data warehouse solutions, we have strived to put all the data...
2017-02-09
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DataOnWheels
North Texas SQL Server User Group – September 2016 Follow
Thanks for attending my presentation on window functions in TSQL during the September 15, 2016. I hope you learned something you...
2016-09-19
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Power BI Is Finally in the Azure Trust Center
With the most recent announcement of Power BI’s inclusion in the Azure Trust Center, it is a good time to review...
2016-05-11 (first published: 2016-04-28)
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JSON in SQL Server 2016 – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Microsoft introduced support for JSON data in SQL Server 2016 and in Azure SQL Database. I was excited to see...
2016-04-20
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SQL Saturday #492 Follow Up – A Window into Your Data
Thanks for attending my session on window functions in TSQL. I hope you learned something you can take back and...
2016-04-16
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VS Live 2016 – Las Vegas Follow Up
I spoke at Visual Studio Live in Vegas on two topics. While the presentations have been uploaded to the site and were...
2016-04-11
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SQL Saturday #486 Richmond – A Window Into Your Data
Thanks for attending my session on window functions in TSQL. I hope you learned something you can take back and...
2016-03-19
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Excel Tip #30: Excel Services Visual Limitations – Displaying Images
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2016-03-14 (first published: 2016-03-04)
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Minnesota BI User Group – Powering Up HDInsight with Power BI (December 2015)
On Wednesday, December 16, I presented on this topic at the Minnesota BI User Group. This session is based on...
2016-02-04
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Five Years, A Quiet Quarter, A Look Ahead to 2016
Five Years of Blogging
From to My blogging story started on December 7, 2010. I have now had a blog for...
2016-01-18
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Blogs
From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
By ReviewMyDB
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...
PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...
A New Word: La Guadière
By Steve Jones
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...
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non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file
hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...
PolyBase Trace Flags
Are there any good articles on all the trace flags that are enabled on...
The Data Model Matters
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD I
I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:
lcmd -S localhost -EI then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version goIf I hit enter, what happens? See possible answers