SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2025
SQL Saturday Baton Rouge is a great event hosted on LSU’s campus that has some of the best food, presenters, and attendees in the country! Had some incredible questions...
2025-07-26
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DataOnWheels
My first year on full disability, wow!
What a year … At the end of May 2024, I went on full time disability. For the first time in my adult life, I was not fully employed....
2025-06-03 (first published: 2025-06-02)
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SQL Saturday NYC Recap 2025
My first time at SQL Saturday New York City was an absolute blast! Thank you so much to the organizers and the incredible people who chatted with me during...
2025-05-12
188 reads
FabCon 2025 Recap
Hey fellow data friends! Wow, March was an absolutely crazy month (in the best way). It was incredible to see so many folks in Redmond for the MVP Summit,...
2025-04-30 (first published: 2025-04-15)
205 reads
SQL Saturday Atlanta BI Recap
https://sqlsaturday.com/2025-03-08-sqlsaturday1102/#schedule SQL Saturday Atlanta BI is one of my favorite SQL Saturdays of the year. This year was especially sweet to see a lot of the SML (Saturday Morning...
2025-03-10
25 reads
Knoxville M365 Community Days Recap
Hello data friends! Had a blast at my first ever M365 Community Day this past weekend! Thank you to all the amazing organizers and sponsors who made it happen,...
2025-03-04
11 reads
How-To Convert Excel Date & Time to SQL
Hey data friends! This one comes from my personal vault (aka backlog of drafts I’ve been needing to write up) and is a really simple code that I always...
2025-02-14 (first published: 2025-01-28)
1,225 reads
Using OneLake for Excel Files in Microsoft Fabric
Hey data friends! This blog is to discuss an edge case I’ve run into in Microsoft Fabric. I won’t go into all the context, but the goal was to...
2025-02-03 (first published: 2025-01-21)
2,169 reads
SQL Saturday Oregon & SW Washington 2024
Wow I am so late in posting these notes! But this conference was amazing, so figured still good to post my notes from the incredible sessions I attended! Hope...
2025-01-14
26 reads
Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance for Administrators, a Book Review
I was asked to review the following book by the publisher, and I must say that it was a good experience for me. I used the book to help...
2024-07-22
15 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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