Converting Money

Would You Retire Rather Than ...

What would make you retire? Steve asks the question today.

A New Word: La Guadière

la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you wouldn’t expect, which is often only detectable by sloshing them back and forth in your...

Architecting Power BI Solutions in Microsoft Fabric

Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Power BI are used by a wide range of professionals, creating diverse and complex scenarios, and finding the right solution can be daunting, especially when multiple approaches exist for a single use case. The author distills his 17 years of experience on various data platform technologies in this book to walk you through various Power BI usage scenarios.

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PASS Europe comes to Frankfurt

PASS Europe comes to Frankfurt, Germany on June 10-11, 2026.

Running SQLCMD I

The Data Model Matters

Is a data model important in modern software? Steve thinks it is and gives a few reasons why we might want to spend a little time on ensuring we have good models as we build software.

Over or Under Provisioned

How do you decide how many resources you need in the cloud world?

Secure Cached Plans

UNION vs UNIONALL: #SQLNewBlogger

While writing another post I realized my UNION query didn’t work as one might initiall expect, so I decided a short post was worth writing. This is based on...