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Big Data Workshop

A challenge I have with customers who want to get hands-on experience with the Azure products that are found in a modern data warehouse architecture is finding a workshop...

2019-07-30 (first published: )

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The Microsoft Power Platform

The Microsoft Power Platform consists of three products: Power BI, PowerApps, and Microsoft Flow. I find customers are confused on the use cases of these products and how they...

2019-07-08 (first published: )

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Common Data Model

The Common Data Model (CDM) is a shared data model that is a place to keep all common data to be shared between applications and data sources.  Another way...

2019-06-20 (first published: )

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The fundamental requirements of a reporting system

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There are some fundamental boxes that your reporting system must tick. ✅ The figures...

Seeing the Bigger Picture: How A Monitoring Tool Changed My Approach to Estate Management

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When it comes to managing complex database environments, having the right monitoring solution is...

A New Word: Foilsick

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foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...

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Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs

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The Last Good DBCC Run

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count the number of NULLs in a row

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Hi everyone I have a SP that finds the average based on 3 tables. ...

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The Last Good DBCC Run

I want to check when DBCC CHECKDB was last run on my Baseball database. What code should I use?

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