Office 2013 Preview – Enabling PowerPivot in Excel
With the Office 2013 announcements today I was excited to download and get my hands on the tools. Because this is still...
2012-07-18 (first published: 2012-07-17)
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Crystal Reports DataDate in SSRS
Crystal Reports has a special field name “DataDate”. This date shows the last time the data on the report has...
2012-07-16
1,389 reads
BI Systems Architecture Diagrams
Today I have decided to prepare myself for a meeting with a potential client (tomorrow) and write an article about...
2012-07-16
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PASS BI/DW presents Dimensional Modeling 101–by me…
With a little help from the Kimball Group, I have become somewhat knowledgeable with the Data Mart dimension model approach...
2012-07-16
869 reads
SQL in the City – London 2012
It’s a wrap. Two days of SQL in the City are complete, and I’m back at home, almost feeling normal....
2012-07-18 (first published: 2012-07-16)
3,082 reads
Talent Shift
Today a friend Kevin Edward Kline announced he was joining SQL Sentry. Last week Kevin announced his intent to leave...
2012-07-16
555 reads
How to use LinkedIn to enhance your career
LinkedIn is a great resource to improve your career. It has definitely worked for me as the last 5-6 jobs I have...
2012-07-20 (first published: 2012-07-16)
3,912 reads
MidnightDBA tutorials and webshow now on iTunes!
We’ve been slacking for way too long, but as of this week our video RSS feed is up to date!...
2012-07-16
704 reads
SQL Audit 102 – Reading audit output
Last time we went over the basics of creating a SQL Audit. Now obviously once you’ve gotten your audit in...
2012-07-19 (first published: 2012-07-16)
3,270 reads
I’ll Be Presenting at the PASS Summit 2012
I’m a little late posting this, but I had two sessions accepted out of four I submitted. I’ll be doing...
2012-07-16
544 reads
Blogs
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
How I Built RAG for My Accounting App on Bedrock and pgvector
The first version of my accounting assistant could not find a single purchase of...
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers