State of Database DevOps Survey
Maybe you’re using DevOps within your database development and deployment. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re automating all the things or maybe you’ve got a completely manual set of processes....
2019-12-06
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2019 PASS Summit Recap from a First Timer
Heading to PASS Summit… It is Sunday the week of PASS Summit and I am at the airport after a relaxing morning with my wife and son. Unfortunately, I...
2019-12-06
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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
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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
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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)
670 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)
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Blogs
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
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