Presentation slides for “Building a Big Data Solution”
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Building a Big Data Solution” (Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture with Hadoop,...
2015-02-24
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James Serra's Blog
Power BI Made Simple
In an effort to understand Power BI and all the products it encompasses, I have made this slide deck to...
2015-02-18
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What is Advanced Analytics?
Advanced Analytics, or Business Analytics, refers to future-oriented analysis that can be used to help drive changes and improvements in...
2015-02-11
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Microsoft product roadmap now public
Ever wonder about Microsoft’s product roadmap? With Microsoft rapidly releases products and services, they realized the need to provide better...
2015-02-12 (first published: 2015-02-04)
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Power BI Designer and Power BI Dashboard
Long has the question been asked “Which Microsoft tool do I use for dashboards?”. SSRS, Excel, PowerView, Report Builder and PerformancePoint...
2015-01-14
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Using Power BI to access on-premise data
The following blog describes how to use certain cloud-based Power BI for Office 365 products (Power View and Q&A) on...
2015-01-07
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU3 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU3),...
2014-12-17
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The Modern Data Warehouse
The traditional data warehouse has served us well for many years, but new trends are causing it to break in...
2014-12-10 (first published: 2014-12-03)
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What is Azure Data Factory?
The Azure Data Factory is a service designed to allow developers to integrate disparate data sources. It is a platform...
2014-11-26
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Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Architecture for SQL Server 2014
I have previously blogged about the Fast Track Data Warehouse, a reference configuration optimized for data warehousing (see Microsoft SQL Server...
2014-11-19
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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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