Podcast Interview: Is the On-Premises Data Warehouse Dead?
Recently I’ve been talking a lot with clients and others about the involvement of cloud architecture in a data warehouse...
2016-06-29 (first published: 2016-06-27)
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Tim Mitchell
What if Your Employer Won’t Support Your Career?
I’ve had a lot of luck in my career, especially as it pertains to my work environment. Although I can’t...
2016-07-01 (first published: 2016-06-23)
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Join Me at PASS Summit 2016
It seems like it was just yesterday that we all said goodbye in Seattle at last year’s PASS Summit, but...
2016-06-22
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Bad Data Can Kill
Bad data can kill. Literally. I’m not talking about the impact of bad data on the bottom line of business,...
2016-05-31 (first published: 2016-05-20)
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ETL Data Lineage
Before I began my technical career over a decade and a half ago, I spent several years working in law...
2016-05-06
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SSIS Training Classes for Summer 2016
If you are looking for affordable, high-quality training on SQL Server Integration Services, you may be interested in one of...
2016-05-05
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Refocus
Three years ago, I left the ranks of full-time employment to become an independent consultant. At the same time, I...
2016-05-04
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ETL Auditing
It happens far too often: Once an ETL process has been tested and executes successfully, there are no further checks...
2016-03-29 (first published: 2016-03-22)
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ETL Logging
If you were to poll data professionals on which tasks they enjoy working on the most, ETL logging would probably...
2016-03-22 (first published: 2016-03-14)
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Polishing The Silverware
A few weeks ago I met a couple of my business partners in a moderately upscale restaurant in the Washington,...
2016-03-08
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Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
ROLLUP to calculate Month total for all Categories
Good Afternoon, I have built a table with four columns: Period(Month), Category, Numerator, Denominator....
Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers