Speaking at SQL Saturday Atlanta (#733)
I am so honored and humbled to have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Atlanta (#733) on May 19,...
2018-03-29
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SQL Swimmer
SQL Saturday Iceland–What an Adventure!
Two Saturdays ago, I was in Reykjavik, Iceland, speaking at my very first international SQL Saturday. WOW! Is all I...
2018-03-19
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SQL Saturday Richmond
SQL Saturday Richmond is just 5 days away and this will be the second time I have been selected to...
2018-03-19
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Using the Analysis Services Execute DDL Task
My grandfather used to say, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” I always thought it was a...
2018-03-08 (first published: 2018-03-02)
4,748 reads
I’m Speaking At SQL Saturday Richmond
I am so excited, I was selected to speak at SQL Saturday Richmond on March 24, 2018, in Richmond, Virginia.
SQL...
2018-02-06
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Lessons Learned From SQL Saturday Cleveland
I can finally breath a sigh of relief, my first time of presenting two sessions back to back is finally...
2018-02-06
252 reads
I’m a Speaking Mentor!
I am so excited to announce that I have been accepted as a speaking mentor on SpeakingMentors.com!
I struggled for so...
2018-01-31
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MVP Data Platform
Holy Cow! I still can’t believe it, I was awarded the Microsoft MVP – Data Platform today. I guess I really...
2018-01-04
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Kicking Off The New Year With A Bang
Back in 2015, I said would think about speaking in my #TSQL2sday #61 post. Well here it is 2018 and...
2018-01-03
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New Session: Data Types Do Matter
I started speaking on a semi-regular basis this year after many years of trepidation. You can read about my first...
2017-11-17
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Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
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Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
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High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers