T-SQL Tuesday #179: What’s In Your Data Detective Toolkit?
Most of us who work with data have, at least a few times, been presented with a challenge to explore and attempt to make sense of a poorly-defined set...
2024-10-01
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Blog Posts
Comparing an Old Running Total to Window Functions
Often I see running totals that are written in SQL using a variety of techniques. Many pieces of code were written in pre-2012 techniques, prior to window functions being...
2024-09-30
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Comparing an Old Running Total to Window Functions
Often I see running totals that are written in SQL using a variety of techniques. Many pieces of code were written in pre-2012 techniques, prior to window functions being...
2024-09-30
7 reads
Making Legend Order Match Segment Order in a Power BI Stacked Column Chart
A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had...
2024-09-30
7 reads
Making Legend Order Match Segment Order in a Power BI Stacked Column Chart
A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had...
2024-09-30
5 reads
Making Legend Order Match Segment Order in a Power BI Stacked Column Chart
A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had...
2024-09-30
6 reads
Monday Monitor Tip: Compliance Checking for Old Versions
A customer recently wanted to know if any of their instances were too old and out of support. This was for a compliance purpose, and they had the need...
2024-09-30
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Monday Monitor Tip: Compliance Checking for Old Versions
A customer recently wanted to know if any of their instances were too old and out of support. This was for a compliance purpose, and they had the need...
2024-09-30
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Monday Monitor Tips–Finding CUs for My Instance
How can I quickly get a CU patch for a system that’s out of date? I’ll discuss that situation. You might think you get to patch every instance every...
2024-09-30 (first published: 2024-09-16)
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Why CFOs Can’t Afford to Delay BI Adoption
The post Why CFOs Can’t Afford to Delay BI Adoption appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2024-09-30 (first published: 2024-09-16)
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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