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
19 reads
DataOnWheels
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)
1,351 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)
2,474 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
29 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
24 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #176: That Piece of Technical Advice for the Past Me
DIVERSIFY! We devote a lot of time to mastering the technology that we are passionate about or use for our jobs. For example, I specialized in Microsoft business intelligence,...
2024-07-02
97 reads
The Next Phase & A Fresh Start
As of June 1, I am no longer an employee at 3Cloud. I am now officially on long term disability. This marks the first time since I graduated from...
2024-06-20
32 reads
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)
391 reads
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)
710 reads
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
36 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
SQL Server Security Hardening Guide Using the DoD STIG Checklist
Security on your SQL Server is important. That doesn’t need any explaining. But where...
EightKB 2026: Registration is Open!
It’s that time of year again! EightKB is back on August 20th at 13:00...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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