My Learning Goals for 2018
A couple of weeks ago, the SQL Server community had their last T-SQL Tuesday of the year – 97th since 2009...
2017-12-26
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Marlon Ribunal - SQL, Code, Coffee, etc.
Book Review: High Performance SQL Server
As SQL Server professionals, we sometimes encounter some issues that we haven’t seen before or have seen already but forgot...
2017-10-03
391 reads
Power BI KPI Report: Hospital Charge Data
Update: Just getting started with Power BI? You can download the Power BI Report File for this KPI Report. Please...
2016-02-16
2,171 reads
How Much Hospitals Charge For The Same Type Of Cases?
Update: For the KPI version of this report, please check Power BI KPI Report: Hospital Charge Data
How much hospitals charge...
2016-02-16 (first published: 2016-02-09)
2,211 reads
How to Install Microsoft R Server for Windows
Microsoft R Server, or Revolution R Enterprise (RRE) as it is formally known, for now, is basically a platform for...
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
2,990 reads
Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Simple Visualization
This is the third installment of our Getting Started With Power BI Desktop series. The first post is about installation...
2015-08-27
813 reads
Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Getting Data
Now that the Power BI Desktop is installed, let’s get some data. As of this writing, Power BI can get...
2015-09-01 (first published: 2015-08-19)
2,630 reads
Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Installation
Power BI is becoming popular for a lot of reasons. Simply put, Power BI is “BI on your fingertips.” Companies looking to...
2015-08-13
1,223 reads
Finding gaps or missing dates in a date range using TSQL
Here’s a quick how-to on returning temporal data set that includes missing dates. Suppose you are tasked to query an...
2015-05-29
16,229 reads
How to resequence column based on numeric prefix using TSQL
Beginning in version 2005, SQL Server is making manipulation of partitioned set of rows easier by using Window Functions (ROW_NUMBER(), aggregate functions...
2015-03-26 (first published: 2015-03-19)
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers