The Changing Landscape of Community
We have a guest editorial today from Mala Mahadevan on the changing data community.
2023-07-03
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Mala Mahadevan
T-SQL Tuesday 163: Best piece of career advice
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Gethyn Ellis(t). Gethyn’s Invite to us is to write about the best piece of career advice you’ve received. One of the most...
2023-06-20
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T-SQL Tuesday 162 : Data Science and ChatGPT
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Tomaz Kastrun – his call is to write about how we’ve used ChatGPT, and what are ethical issues, if any, that we...
2023-05-22 (first published: 2023-05-09)
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Finding guidance
We all need guidance as we make our way through our careers and our lives. Some people are blessed with the right folks who can offer that by way...
2023-03-24 (first published: 2023-03-17)
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Stairway to ScriptDOM Level 1 - An Introduction to ScriptDOM
Get an introduction to the Stairway Series and learn about the power of the ScriptDOM library.
2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-03-09)
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Stairway to ScriptDOM Level 2 - Parsing, Tokens, and the Abstract Syntax Tree
In this level of the Stairway to ScriptDOM, we examine the way the tool parses scripts and creates tokens from the text.
2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-04-13)
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Stairway to ScriptDOM Level 3 - Finding Patterns in the Abstract Syntax Tree
Learn how you can query for patterns in the Abstract Syntax Tree to analyze your code.
2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-06-08)
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Stairways to ScriptDOM Level 4 – Finding Nuanced Patterns
This level of the Stairway to ScriptDOM looks at finding more complex instance of anti-patterns in your code.
2022-12-07
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My adventures with speaking and what changed
I am writing this blog post as contribution to #NewStarNovember and what got me re-started as a tech speaker in 2020. I haven’t done a lot of tech speaking...
2022-11-30 (first published: 2022-11-29)
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T-SQL Tuesday 153: The conference that changed everything
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by my dear friend Kevin Kline (b | t) . Kevin’s call is for us to ‘Tell us the story of how attending an IT conference or...
2022-08-26 (first published: 2022-08-09)
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Blogs
Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format with Semantic Link Labs
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Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory
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One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume)...
Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2024
By James Serra
Announced at Microsoft Ignite last week were some new product features related to the...
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Question of the Day
The Hash Join II
Which of these inputs is the smaller input to a hash join?
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