Ten Years and Counting …
On March 8, 2014, I reached ten years of service at Magenic Technologies. When I started in 1999 (don’t do...
2014-03-14
812 reads
DataOnWheels
Setting Up Tabular Models on Windows Azure
In my last post, I discussed how to set up Oracle in Windows Azure. During a customer call, there were...
2014-03-12
2,746 reads
Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs #5: Working with Oracle on Windows Azure
As you have likely noticed in my series, Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs, I have done a lot of work...
2014-02-24
885 reads
Rochester – Welcome to the PASS MN Family
It started as a vision for expanding the reach of the Minnesota SQL Server User Group a year ago. At...
2014-01-23
677 reads
Work Ethic and Family – A Tribute to My Parents
A tribute is an expression of gratitude or praise. A couple of years ago, I started a series about individuals...
2014-01-09
663 reads
Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #14: Sparklines and Pivot Tables
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2014-01-07
1,235 reads
2013 – A Year In Review
It is in our nature as humans to look back in order to understand where we have been.
Warning – some of...
2014-01-03
718 reads
Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #13: Connecting Slicers in Pivot Tables Sourced from a Power Pivot Model
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2013-12-17
849 reads
Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #12: Icon Sets
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2013-12-12 (first published: 2013-12-03)
2,338 reads
Traveling, Talking, and a PASS Attack Have Happened
Well, this fall has been crazy. As you may have noted from a couple of my previous posts, link to...
2013-12-01
616 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
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 ...
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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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