Announcing a New Book on SQL from 3Cloud Authors
I am proud to announce the launch of a new book, centered around the importance of SQL, authored by six consultants from 3Cloud. Our new book is called “SQL...
2023-06-07
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DataOnWheels
Power BI – Empowering Users to Disable Tooltips
Let’s set the scene. You’ve built a wonderful, useful, and descriptive report for your stakeholders with a variety of tooltips that offer deeper insights. They love the tooltips, and...
2023-06-19 (first published: 2023-06-05)
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Working with ALS – ALS Awareness Month 2023
I have been living with ALS for the past two years. I was diagnosed in September 2022 but had my first symptoms and started researching what was going on...
2023-06-09 (first published: 2023-05-25)
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Power BI Cruise Recap – Deep Data Dives
Thank you so much to those of you who were able to attend this three-hour, C# packed session! The Power BI Cruise was an incredible conference, and I cannot...
2023-05-12 (first published: 2023-05-02)
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Typing with Your Tongue Part 2: Voice Access
A few months ago, I wrote a post on how I use voice technology to continue working with my ALS condition. Since that post was written, Microsoft released a...
2023-04-14 (first published: 2023-03-28)
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SQL Bits 2023 Recap
I had an amazing time adventuring to Wales with other members of the data community last week! It was my first international conference, and I had heard so many...
2023-03-31 (first published: 2023-03-23)
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Building, Deploying, Sharing a Remote Jupyter Book in Azure Data Studio
When working with Azure Data Studio and its support of Jupyter books, you will find there is an option for remote Jupyter books. As shown in the image below,...
2023-03-27 (first published: 2023-03-16)
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The Microsoft Ability Summit in Review
As many of you are aware, I have been dealing with a progressive version of ALS which is affecting my hands and arms and thus my ability to type....
2023-03-20 (first published: 2023-03-09)
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SQL Saturday Atlanta 2023 Recap
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at SQL Saturday Atlanta! If you’re in the area, I highly recommend connecting with the local user group...
2023-03-10 (first published: 2023-02-27)
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Out of Your SSMS World, Jupyter Notebooks in Azure Data Studio – Louisville Data Technology Group, Feb 2023
It was a lot of fun to speak at the Louisville Data Technology Group in February. Sheila and I presented on Jupyter notebooks in Azure Data Studio. The session...
2023-02-27 (first published: 2023-02-14)
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Blogs
SQL Saturday Boston 2024 Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone that came to my talks. Slides are below. Best Practices for...
Small Data SF 2024
By Steve Jones
I can’t remember how I heard about Small Data SF 2024, but it caught...
A New Word: Moledro
By Steve Jones
moledro – n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll...
Forums
Impact of adding the opening of the Master Key in a SQL job for SSIS packages
Bonjour à tous, J'ai un problème d'exécution de mes packages SSIS. A chaque opération...
Being an extroverted introvert at a conference
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Being an extroverted introvert at...
Need to group the same valued ID fields to run an aggregate average over them
I have data that contains poll results, with the poll_id consistuting a single row...
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How are statistics stored?
How are the statistics for query optimization stored in SQL Server?
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