Power BI Learning Opportunity at SQLBits
If you’ve been thinking about learning Power BI, I have a wonderful opportunity for you. I will be presenting, along with my friend and colleague Michael Johnson (Blog |...
2022-02-24
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SQL Swimmer
Unable to Validate Source Query in Tabular Editor
I recently encountered the error, “Unable to validate source query” when trying to refresh the metadata for the tables in my tabular model using Tabular Editor. I immediately googled...
2022-03-14 (first published: 2022-02-22)
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Bits Buddies
SQLBits is fast approaching, in fact, Training Days start 2 weeks from today, on March 8, 2022. I’ve attended SQLBits before, as well as other large conferences, but I...
2022-02-22
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I Still Can’t Believe It!
I received my MVP award letter from Microsoft today. This will make the fourth time I’ve been awarded and I still can’t believe it. I just wanted to help...
2021-07-01
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Data Saturday #8–Southwest US
I am very excited to announce that I will be speaking for Data Saturday #8 – Southwest US, coming up on Saturday, May 15, 2021. I will be delivering...
2021-05-08
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Data Weekender v3.1
I am super excited about this new version of Data Weekender, coming up on Saturday, May 15, 2021. This will be the third time I have been selected to...
2021-05-08
15 reads
It’s Not Horrible, It’s Just Very Sad
This is a non-technical post, but a necessary one for me. If you’re only interested in technical content, that’s okay, you can stop reading, I won’t be offended (heck,...
2020-08-25
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When Your Azure Data Catalog App Won’t Connect
This year I created a new presentation for introducing Azure Data Catalog. I love this product and think it has so much potential and everyone should be using it! ...
2020-06-15 (first published: 2020-05-26)
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I’m Speaking at #SQLSatBrisbane
I’ve always wanted to go to Australia, in fact we have a trip planned for Martin’s 60th birthday in a couple of years. But with all that’s happened in...
2020-05-18
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I’m Speaking at #DataWeekender
With all our in-person events cancelled for the foreseeable future, I was so excited to find that some community folks are not sitting back and waiting for the social...
2020-04-25
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Blogs
Dynamically Unpivot columns in SQL
By DataOnWheels
Picture this, your data ingestion team has created a table that has the sales...
Friday Basics: RPO and RTO
By Brian Kelley
I did a post last month titled RTO and RPO are myths unless you've...
A New Word: ioia
By Steve Jones
ioia – n.the wish that you could see statistics overlaid on every person you...
Forums
SQL Server Encrypt data into a file, send it and then decrypt
First off, my apologies for what could potentially be a bad title! I am...
Table partitioning best practice
I've inherited a couple of rather large databases from my ex-colleague when I join...
Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in Power BI - Part 2
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in...
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Finding Marks
I have marked a few transactions in my code. How can I find out which marks were stored in a transaction log?
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