SQL Rally Schedule
In case you didn’t see the email come through for PASS this week the SQL Rally schedule is now available. ...
2012-04-13
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Devin Knight
April 2012 Speaking Events
This month I’ll be out and about quite a bit with speaking events. Thought I’d detail them quickly in case...
2012-04-06
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SQL Saturday #130 Jacksonville Schedule Posted
SQL Saturday Jacksonville is just under a month away (April 28) and I’m happy to announce the we recently released...
2012-03-30
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Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 4: PerformancePoint
If you’ve followed this blog series from the beginning then you may have started thinking about which tools would be...
2012-03-21
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Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 3: PowerPivot
Today I’ll be continuing in a blog series designed to help you decide which presentation tool is best for your...
2012-03-21 (first published: 2012-03-16)
2,946 reads
SQL Server 2012 Data Mining add-in for Excel 2010 Released
Another release that went without much trumpeting was the SQL Server 2012
Data Mining add-in for Excel 2010. This has...
2012-03-07
1,682 reads
PowerPivot 2012 RTM Release
Somewhat overshadowed, for obvious reasons, by the big RTM release of SQL Server 2012 was the RTM release of PowerPivot...
2012-03-07
1,187 reads
Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 2: Excel
This post is a continuation of a series started to help you understand each of the Microsoft presentation layer tools...
2012-03-06
1,998 reads
Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 1: Report Services
As Business Intelligence has evolved over the years the number of tools we have to choose from for presenting data...
2012-03-01
1,460 reads
SSRS – Creating a Reporting Services Web Farm
Reporting Services performance problems can often be narrowed down to report design or resource constraints and sometimes a combination of...
2012-02-20
3,981 reads
Blogs
Match the Model to the Task, Not the App: An Orchestrator-Worker Pattern in Python
Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That...
Advice I Like: Responsibility
By Steve Jones
“The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not...
Power BI Performance in 2026: A Practical Guide to Faster Semantic Models and Reports
By James Serra
Originally published April 2022; substantially updated July 2026. This post is a complete replacement...
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SQL Agent Job Automated Change Capture Process
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Another Model, More Data Loss
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