Updates to the Power BI course

Recently I published an open-source course/workshop to learn Power BI Desktop. Fellow MVP Dan English (blog | twitter) gave me the...

Getting Started with PowerBI: Building Graphs (Part 3)

This is part 3 of the Getting Started with Power BI series. Power BI is a powerful reporting and dashboarding...

Deadlock on ALTER DATABASE

I had an interesting problem recently. A database was stuck in single user mode. How exactly was it stuck you...

Managing Bad Data

In the last post in my ongoing series about ETL best practices, I discussed the importance of error handling in ETL...

True story: Encryption in progress stuck

Working with a couple of databases that needed TDE I noticed when I enabled one of them that it was...

Resolution of Database Consistency Error in SQL Server

There are so many facilities and amenities in SQL Server along with built-in methods, which assist users in some bad...

PowerShell Virtual Group of PASS February Newsletter

We had a schedule conflict so today’s meeting will be pushed until next Wednesday.  However, we have a last-minute meeting tonight (this afternoon, tomorrow, whichever time zone you’re in)....

PowerShell Virtual Group of PASS February Newsletter

We had a schedule conflict so today’s meeting will be pushed until next Wednesday.  However, we have a last-minute meeting tonight (this afternoon, tomorrow, whichever time zone you’re in)....

PowerShell Virtual Group of PASS February Newsletter

We had a schedule conflict so today’s meeting will be pushed until next Wednesday.  However, we have a last-minute meeting...

Upcoming list of webinars

SQL folks, upcoming list of webinars from SQL PASS. 

Webinar title / Registration link / more infoSpeakerDate / Time"Why Your Data Type Choices Matter" https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4226815545680860675Andy...