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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Koen Verbeeck
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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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Missing Checkbox for Security Filter in Power BI Desktop
Just a quick blog post so that other people don’t waste 15 minutes of their life looking for a missing...
2017-02-17 (first published: 2017-02-09)
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Dynamically Changing Shapes in Power BI – Alternatives
NOTE: the DAX presented in this blog post is written in my locale (nl-BE). This means that semicolons are used...
2017-02-16 (first published: 2017-02-08)
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Dynamically Changing Shapes in Power BI
UPDATE: I also published a blog post using a DAX only approach. Check it out here.
Recently someone had a question...
2017-02-13 (first published: 2017-02-07)
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Blogs
Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)
By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
Forums
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I have several important email accounts stored in MBOX format from clients like Thunderbird...
Basic Always On Groups Randomly Stop Synchronizing
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Learning From Breakage
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Question of the Day
Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers