How to use Images in Power BI Report Builder
Learn how you can add images to your reports in Power BI when using the Report Builder.
It's the Engineers
The staff that build your systems are more important than your choice of technology.
Database DevOps: Standardize, Automate, Monitor & Protect
See how our end-to-end framework for extending DevOps to your database enables your organization to balance the demand to deliver software fast with the need to protect and preserve business critical data.
Getting results using less T-SQL
There is usually more than one way to write a query. In this article, Edward Pollack explains a few ways to write simpler T-SQL code.
Moving on but not far
During my technical career, I’ve changed companies several times. I even worked as an independent contractor for three years. One thing I have never done before was switch departments and roles within one company. That’s about to change in a couple of weeks as I move from Simple Talk Editor and DevOps Advocate in Marketing […]
Job Interviews: What is Normalization?
Do you know how to answer normalization questions in an interview? Steve Jones gives you a few ideas and recommends you brush up on your knowledge.
Change Management and Leadership Alignment
Successfully implanting change in an organization requires buy-in from leadership. Rohan Kapoor explains what’s needed to get leadership alignment.
Flyway and Simple Source Control
How to integrate Flyway database development with Source control, so that you can track what changes were made and who made them as well as which objects changed between versions, and how.
The General Database Platform
It seems that many people who choose NoSQL platforms still need relational features. Steve speculates on why.
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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