https://sqlsaturday.com/2025-03-08-sqlsaturday1102/#schedule SQL Saturday Atlanta BI is one of my favorite SQL Saturdays of the year. This year was especially sweet to see a lot of the SML (Saturday Morning...
2025-03-10
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Hello data friends! Had a blast at my first ever M365 Community Day this past weekend! Thank you to all the amazing organizers and sponsors who made it happen,...
2025-03-04
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Hey data friends! This one comes from my personal vault (aka backlog of drafts I’ve been needing to write up) and is a really simple code that I always...
2025-02-14 (first published: 2025-01-28)
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Hey data friends! This blog is to discuss an edge case I’ve run into in Microsoft Fabric. I won’t go into all the context, but the goal was to...
2025-02-03 (first published: 2025-01-21)
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Wow I am so late in posting these notes! But this conference was amazing, so figured still good to post my notes from the incredible sessions I attended! Hope...
2025-01-14
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I was asked to review the following book by the publisher, and I must say that it was a good experience for me. I used the book to help...
2024-07-22
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DIVERSIFY! We devote a lot of time to mastering the technology that we are passionate about or use for our jobs. For example, I specialized in Microsoft business intelligence,...
2024-07-02
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As of June 1, I am no longer an employee at 3Cloud. I am now officially on long term disability. This marks the first time since I graduated from...
2024-06-20
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Ever since Excel made its debut in the 1980’s, it has been used as a quick way for end users to input and manipulate data on their own without...
2024-06-03 (first published: 2024-05-14)
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Picture this, your data ingestion team has created a table that has the sales for each month year split into different columns. At first glance, you may think “what’s...
2024-05-27 (first published: 2024-05-10)
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By Steve Jones
A customer asked if they needed to restore a database from backup to compare...
By Brian Kelley
If we aren't having the same conversation, we aren't going to be heard. That's...
A while back I wrote about using AI to explore why people are not...
Hello, I would like to build a table capturing data starting from 1st day...
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I'm setting up a SQL Server 2019 instance and we are planning on using SMB storage for our database files. However, the file share isn't ready, so the idea is to use the \127.0.0.1dbfile as the location to start and then move these files to the remote server. Can I do this?
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