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
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DataOnWheels
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
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
85 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
27 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)
388 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)
683 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
33 reads
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
28 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
25 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)
22 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
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that one limitation in replication
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Detecting Deadlocks
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