Power BI: Refreshable Excel Files in PBI Service
Ever since Excel made its debut in the 1980’s, it has been used as a quick way for end users to input and manipulate data on their own without...
2024-06-03 (first published: 2024-05-14)
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DataOnWheels
Dynamically Unpivot columns in SQL
Picture this, your data ingestion team has created a table that has the sales for each month year split into different columns. At first glance, you may think “what’s...
2024-05-27 (first published: 2024-05-10)
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SQL Saturday Atlanta 2024
Hey there happy coders! Last weekend I had the pleasure of speaking at the SQL Saturday Atlanta event in Georgia! It was an awesome time of seeing data friends...
2024-04-30
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First Time Speaking with a Mask at an Event
Over the past couple of months, I have started losing my ability to talk without a mask. One of the effects of a disease, ALS, is that I am...
2024-04-19
21 reads
Derby City Data Days
It was awesome to see the Kentucky data community come out for the first Derby City Data Days in Louisville, KY! Bringing together communities from Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky,...
2024-04-16
13 reads
Working with ALS – Insights from the Ability Summit
The 14th annual Ability Summit is a global event that I attended a few weeks ago. It is hosted by Microsoft, and it presents the latest technology innovations and...
2024-03-29 (first published: 2024-03-27)
12 reads
SQLBits 2024 Recap
Had an absolutely amazing time at SQLBits this year! It was lovely to see all my data friends again and had the opportunity to introduce my husband to everyone...
2024-03-12
9 reads
DataTune Nashville 2024 Recap
DataTune 2024 was a huge success! Thank you so much to the organizers who spent countless months planning and making this an incredible conference! It was so great to...
2024-03-18 (first published: 2024-03-11)
106 reads
SQL Saturday ATL – BI Recap
First of all, wow! What an incredible event! Loved seeing everyone and meeting so many wonderful new people. Thank you to everyone who organized, spoke, and attended this event!...
2024-02-14
10 reads
How to Call REST API using VS Code
Sometimes you need a fast way to test your API call and responses, and for that VS code is the perfect tool to do that. For today’s demo, we...
2024-02-07 (first published: 2024-01-24)
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Blogs
Query multiple Azure SQL Databases
I was sick of changing context in Azure Data Studio while cleaning up things...
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 3
By Zikato
The crime spree in Digitown is not ending. This time 20 cars have been...
The Book of Redgate: Do Your Best Work
By Steve Jones
One of our mission statements in the Book of Redgate says: attempt to do...
Forums
Shining a Light on Shadow AI - Responsible Data Protection When AI is Everywhere
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CAST(VARCHAR(n)) resolved performance issue?
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isnull, coalesce overhead
hi, one of our sister division's erp extract view is going thru at least...
Question of the Day
The Internals of Writing a Page
In SQL Server, when the buffer manager write pages to disk, page protection is added to the pages. There are two types of protection: torn page protection and checksum page protection. What happens with regards to concurrency with page protection during writes?
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