PASS BA Marathon – Spring Edition Q&A
The PASS BA Marathon Spring Edition was quite a success. A lot of people tuned in (over 400), the webinar...
2017-04-19
748 reads
Koen Verbeeck
T-SQL Tuesday 89 – Roundup
I asked the SQL Server community to write about their experience/opinion about the changing world we live in and how...
2017-04-18
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T-SQL Tuesday #89 – The times they are a-changing
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by yours truly! The topic this month: how do you keep up with the...
2017-04-19 (first published: 2017-04-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday #89 Invitation – The times they are a-changing
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party for the SQL Server community (or Microsoft Data Platform community. Although it’s called...
2017-04-04
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T-SQL Tuesday #88 – The daily (database-related) WTF
It’s the time of the month again: the T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s edition is hosted by Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan (blog|twitter) and...
2017-03-14
481 reads
Hands-On Data Analysis With Power BI Desktop at PASS BA Marathon
I’m delighted to announce I’ll give a session at the next PASS BA webinar marathon. The topic of this marathon...
2017-03-06
405 reads
Webinar – Executing, Configuring and Scheduling SSIS 2016 Packages
I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com at March 30th. It’s a sponsored webinar, meaning there will also be a vendor...
2017-03-08 (first published: 2017-03-01)
1,504 reads
Not An Administrator For Analysis Services Tabular
A couple of weeks back I installed SQL Server 2016 on my personal machine, including SSAS Tabular. Yesterday I created...
2017-03-13 (first published: 2017-02-28)
1,998 reads
Updates to the Power BI course
Recently I published an open-source course/workshop to learn Power BI Desktop. Fellow MVP Dan English (blog | twitter) gave me the...
2017-02-16
485 reads
Open Source Power BI Desktop Workshop
I’ve created a free, open-source workshop to teach people the capabilities and features of Power BI Desktop. I was inspired...
2017-02-13
1,155 reads
Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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