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mottleheaded – adj. feeling uneasy when socializing with odd combinations of friend and family, or friends and colleagues, or colleagues and family – mixing a medley of ingredients that...
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Microsoft Purview GA menu’s
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2024-10-02 (first published: 2024-09-19)
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Connect to Power BI as a Guest User in another Tenant
Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added as a guest user in another tenant. This happens quite a lot when you’re a...
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Parsing EXE Output in PowerShell
I saw a post internally that asked this question: Anyone have a handy powershell script testing if the installed flyway version matches a specific string? That seemed simple, but...
2024-10-04 (first published: 2024-09-18)
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Connect With More Clients: Our Partner Directory Has Arrived
The partner directory connects your agency with new customers.
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Can You See Who Forced a Plan
I had an excellent group of people in Gothenburg Sweden when I taught there and I was asked: Can You See Who Forced a Plan? I didn’t know the...
2024-09-25 (first published: 2024-09-16)
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Monday Monitor Tips–Finding CUs for My Instance
How can I quickly get a CU patch for a system that’s out of date? I’ll discuss that situation. You might think you get to patch every instance every...
2024-09-30 (first published: 2024-09-16)
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Why You Need a SQL DBA or Consultant
Many organizations do not have in-house DBAs. This can be due to a number of reasons. Most commonly it is smaller organizations that cannot justify a full time DBA....
2024-09-16
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Why CFOs Can’t Afford to Delay BI Adoption
The post Why CFOs Can’t Afford to Delay BI Adoption appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2024-09-30 (first published: 2024-09-16)
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Why Data Analysts Love PostgreSQL (and You Will Too!)
Data analysis is all about wrangling massive datasets. To do that efficiently, you need a database that can handle the pressure. That's why data analysts turn to relational databases,...
2024-09-25 (first published: 2024-09-14)
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Question of the Day
PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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