Decouple the Tools
The decoupling of some tools from SQL Server seems to be working. Perhaps Microsoft should decouple them all.
Query to Excel Stored Procedure
Transform your query result into an Excel file using this technique.
Quality-Driven Software Development
While software is among the most widely used products in human history, it also has one of the highest failure rates due to poor quality. In this article, Cynthia Dzikiti explains how quality should be part of all aspects of the software lifecycle.
Scripting Environments in SSIS
Demo and script on how to script out SSIS Environments and their associated variables
SQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 5: Generating multiple plots in Python
Visualization is often the first step in analyzing data. Python makes visualization easy. In this article, Robert Sheldon demonstrates how to generate multiple charts from one dataset using Python with SQL Server Machine Learning Services.
Elevation of Privileges
The elevation of privileges is a large security problem and Steve Jones discusses his fears. Would you know if someone successfully attacked your instance?
Staying Current on Power BI Dashboards
Power BI Dashboards can be kept current using simple DAX formulas in your data models. Save yourself time and energy by understanding how dashboard tiles work on PowerBI.com and what can be done to set your dashboards to a current period.
Object Security in Analysis Services Tabular 2017
Koen Verbeeck looks at how to hide tables or columns in Analysis Services Tabular 2017 for certain users so they are not able to use them in reports or query them.
Blogs
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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