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
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
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Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers