2023 in Review – Steve’s Perspective
2023 was another transition year as I continue to navigate my ALS with work. It has become harder to write or at least more work is required. I use...
2024-01-05
38 reads
DataOnWheels
Becoming Kristyna Ferris <3
Hey folks, fun personal post today. A few weeks ago, I got married! My amazing new husband is Kyle Ferris, and I will be changing my name to Kristyna...
2023-12-07
41 reads
October Is National Disability Employment Awareness Month
As many of you know, I was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease a couple of years ago. Since then, I have 9 made it a personal mission...
2023-10-09
19 reads
About 5 Minutes with Microsoft Fabric
Introducing the Fabric 5 from Data on Wheels Microsoft Fabric went to public preview this past summer. There has been content created around using the various cool features that...
2023-10-04 (first published: 2023-09-14)
334 reads
Power BI VertiPaq Engine: Optimizing Column Encoding
Power BI encoding is a powerful optimizing option that is often overlooked because it’s not visible in neither the Power BI Desktop tool nor in Power BI Service. Natively,...
2023-09-07 (first published: 2023-09-06)
673 reads
Focusing on a Different S Curve
At the beginning of the year, I took a step back and looked at how far my career had grown. In large part because of the incredible data community,...
2023-09-08 (first published: 2023-08-16)
139 reads
Demonstrating How I Use Voice Access
As part of my effort to inform people on how to use tools with their disabilities and continue working, I created a series of videos that demonstrate how I...
2023-07-14 (first published: 2023-07-05)
126 reads
Announcing a New Book on SQL from 3Cloud Authors
I am proud to announce the launch of a new book, centered around the importance of SQL, authored by six consultants from 3Cloud. Our new book is called “SQL...
2023-06-07
20 reads
Power BI – Empowering Users to Disable Tooltips
Let’s set the scene. You’ve built a wonderful, useful, and descriptive report for your stakeholders with a variety of tooltips that offer deeper insights. They love the tooltips, and...
2023-06-19 (first published: 2023-06-05)
238 reads
Working with ALS – ALS Awareness Month 2023
I have been living with ALS for the past two years. I was diagnosed in September 2022 but had my first symptoms and started researching what was going on...
2023-06-09 (first published: 2023-05-25)
125 reads
Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
Forums
AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers