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This is part 1 of the Getting Started with Power BI series. Power BI is a powerful reporting and dashboarding...
2017-02-02
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Marc Beacom
Hiring Productive Employees – #TAPtips
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2017-01-31
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A New Year, A New Company and A New DenverSQL Chapter
2016 was a great year, both personally and professionally. Personally, our family is well and the kids are growing into...
2017-01-30
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Setting Up a Productive Work Environment – #TAPtips
Having a productive work environment for you and your team is important to facilitate tasks being accomplished as well as...
2017-02-03 (first published: 2017-01-25)
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Team Collaboration with Microsoft OneNote – #TAPtips
I was an early adopter of Microsoft’s OneNote and started using it in February of 2004 and have never stopped....
2017-01-17
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Increased Productivity with the Pomodoro Technique – TAPtips
Today's TAPtips is about Increased Productivity with the Pomodoro Technique. Have you tried the Pomodoro Technique? If so, what were...
2017-01-10
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Launching #TAPtips – Valuable Tips from Decades of Practice
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2017-01-03
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DawaBI Merges with Quanta Intelligence to Broaden and Deepen our Service Offering
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2016-08-18
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PASS SQL Saturday Events: December 2014
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5 things to know about Databricks
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Blogs
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Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
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AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers