Making Sense of the Power BI Ecosystem Presentation Materials
I just wrapped up my first presentation on Making Sense of the Power BI Ecosystem at SQL Saturday #755 in...
2018-06-09
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SQL with Dustin Ryan
Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database at SQL Saturday Jacksonville and 24 Hours of Pass
I’m speaking at two upcoming events that I wanted to share with you! My topic is Monitoring and Tuning Azure...
2018-04-20
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Converting a Power BI Desktop File from Import to Live Query
A customer of mine is in the midst of a proof of concept using SQL Server and Power BI. During...
2018-01-30
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2017 Year in Review for SQLDusty.com
2017 was an awesome year for SQLDusty.com! Thank you to all of the readers and visitors that stopped by to...
2018-01-29
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Creating a Knowledge Base Chat Bot w/ Azure Bot Service
A while back you may have caught my blog post introducing the Power BI Chat Bot 9000. Since posting that...
2018-01-02 (first published: 2017-12-12)
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Making Sense of Data Migration Assistant Assessments with Power BI
The Data Migration Assistant is a great tool developed to assess your SQL Server environment for a migration to a...
2017-12-06
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Setting Up a Drillthrough Action in your Power BI Report
At some point this weekend, the Microsoft Power BI folks turned on the drill-through feature in the Power BI service....
2017-09-03
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Preparing for Microsoft Certification Exam 70-778: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI
Late last month Microsoft released the certification exam for Power BI, 70-778: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI....
2017-08-23
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Power BI FAQ Chat Bot 9000 lives!
So I’ve been working on a fun little project over the past couple weeks. A lot of my customers have...
2017-08-18
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Building Your Brand and Becoming a Thought Leader Session Materials
Thank you to everyone that attending my session today at SQL Saturday #649 in Jacksonville, Florida! It was a packed...
2017-08-12
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Blogs
More fun with Git: git restore
The setup My day job involves babysitting a lot of Git repositories hosted on...
When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages
By John
Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two...
Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4
By Brian Kelley
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...
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Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers