TechFuse Minnesota Follow Up
My Session: Using Azure SQL Database for Enterprise Needs
On 10/6/2015, I presented on Azure SQL Database at TechFuse Minnesota. Some...
2015-10-06
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DataOnWheels
Powering Up HDInsight with Power BI–
On Tuesday, September 15, I presented on this topic for Pragmatic Works. You can find that session here. This session...
2015-09-15
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Using Power BI with HDInsight Part 2: Power BI Desktop and Hive
With the rise of HDInsight and other Hadoop based tools, it is valuable to understand how Power BI can help...
2015-08-28
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Using Power BI with HDInsight Part 1: Power Query and Files
With the rise of HDInsight and other Hadoop based tools, it is valuable to understand how Power BI can help...
2015-08-27
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Uploading Files to an HDInsight Cluster (No Scripting Required)
As I noted in my first post, I am not a fan of scripting. In that post we set up...
2015-08-26
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Exploring the Microsoft Azure HDInsight Query Console (No Scripting Required)
As I noted in my previous post, I am not a fan of scripting. In that post we set up...
2015-09-04 (first published: 2015-08-25)
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Setting Up an HDInsight Cluster (No Scripts Required)
Let me start by saying, I am not a fan of scripting. It definitely has its place and a lot...
2015-09-01 (first published: 2015-08-24)
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Excel BI Tip #28: Using member expressions in the CUBEVALUE Function
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2015-07-28 (first published: 2015-07-21)
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Excel BI Tip #27: CUBESET and CUBESETCOUNT Functions
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2015-06-16
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How I Got Started in Software Development-A Tribute to Ed
Steve:
Happy Memorial Weekend everyone. This is a time to remember those who have gone before and in some cases have...
2015-05-22
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
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A Quick Restore
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Guarding Against SQL Injection at the Database Layer (SQL Server)
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers