PASS Summit 2016-Thursday Part II
The second half of the day was spent talking with various speakers and attendees. I got into a great conversation...
2016-10-28
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The Smiling DBA
PASS Summit 2016-Thursday Part 1
Today’s keynote was by David Dewitt. He did an excellent job explaining the architecture behind various Cloud Data Warehouse offerings....
2016-10-27
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PASS Summit 2016-Wednesday
As all Summits, the first Regular Session day in Seattle started with the Keynote. Well, really it starts with a...
2016-10-27
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PASS Summit 2016–Tuesday
For the first day at the Summit this year, I spent half my time in a Pre-Conference session with Idera...
2016-10-25
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VOTE!!! PASS Board of Director Elections
It is voting season again, and there is a great group of individuals running for the Board of Directors of...
2016-10-06
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Live! 360–Speaking at SQL Server Live Orlando 2016
If you are looking for a great conference to attend, please look at Live! 360. This event combines 6 different...
2016-09-10
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Using a Lookup Component in SSIS for Surrogate Keys in a Fact table
There are many suggestions for loading a data warehouse using SQL Server integration Services (SSIS). Once you get started, you...
2016-07-26 (first published: 2016-07-21)
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PASS Summit 2016 – Connect, Share, Learn
Please join me and about 4000+ other technology professionals for the annual PASS Summit in Seattle, WA October 24th – 28th....
2016-06-24
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Why use a Date Dimension Table in a Data Warehouse
In the Data Mart, or the Data Warehouse world, there is a date dimension table in all schemas if you...
2016-06-06 (first published: 2016-05-29)
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SQLSaturday Atlanta #521 May 19th & 20th 2016
SQLSaturday events are a pleasure to be a part of whether it involves speaking or volunteering. Volunteering definitely takes more...
2016-04-23
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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