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
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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
865 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)
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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
551 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)
3,902 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
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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)
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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
541 reads
Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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