Call to Action – Mentoring
A few weeks ago I attended the annual PASS Summit conference in beautiful Seattle, Washington. This is an event that I look forward to every year. Being able to...
2019-12-06
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HP is the 2019 Laptop Winner
This is for me, not necessarily for you, but I decided to go with the HP Spectre again. I saw an email from Best Buy over the Thanksgiving weekend,...
2019-12-06
55 reads
Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4
This is the fourth and final post in a series about modern Data Lake
Architecture where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using
Delta Lake,...
2019-12-06
91 reads
Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4
This is the fourth and final post in a series about modern Data Lake
Architecture where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using
Delta Lake,...
2019-12-06
87 reads
Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 4
This is the fourth and final post in a series about modern Data Lake
Architecture where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using
Delta Lake,...
2019-12-16 (first published: 2019-12-06)
1,195 reads
SQLOrlando 2019
We just had our final event of the year and looking back, not bad at all. No event in June or November, but 18 overall (16 listed below, plus...
2019-12-05
32 reads
Error message: http://System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Conversion failed when converting the varchar value ‘NULL’ to data type int.
I love this error. Primarily because it demonstrates two very important things. Errors matter. Make sure when you ask someone ... Continue reading
2019-12-11 (first published: 2019-12-05)
669 reads
New Power BI Report Design Pre-Con in 2020
I’m excited to announce that I will be offering a full-day pre-con about Power BI report design in the coming year called Bookmarks, brain pixels, and bar charts: creating...
2019-12-19 (first published: 2019-12-05)
504 reads
Resetting an Azure SQL Database Admin Password
This is likely something that most people know, but it was a bit confusing for me. This post is really here to remind me and help cement this in...
2019-12-18 (first published: 2019-12-05)
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What's New In SQL 2019? at the Little Rock, AR SQL Server User Group
Thanks to everyone who joined the Little Rock SQL Server User Group for a night all about SQL Server 2019! We got off into tangents and use cases for...
2019-12-05
9 reads
Blogs
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
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If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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