Iterate Over Web Pages Using Power Query
Power Query makes it easy to pull data from a web page. As easy as deflating a football. Poof. Gone. However,...
2015-08-10 (first published: 2015-08-05)
3,887 reads
Sam Vanga
Baltimore Crime Report Using Power BI
As part of my quest for using data to find answers to everyday questions using Power BI – after analyzing baby names...
2015-08-06 (first published: 2015-07-27)
3,167 reads
Community Reactions to Power BI General Availability
Power BI is released to the public on Friday, 07/24. There’re both free and Pro versions. For full details about...
2015-08-03 (first published: 2015-07-26)
1,994 reads
Include File Name in Content Using Power Query
When importing data from a flat file using Power Query, you’d want to combine multiple files and include file name...
2015-07-28 (first published: 2015-07-21)
26,727 reads
Automating SSIS Design Pattern: Load Flat File Into Staging Table
Delimited flat files are commonly used to move data from one system to the other.
In this two part series published...
2015-07-14
775 reads
Are People’s Food Habits Changing? A Power BI Analysis
A few years ago on road trips I’d happily grab whatever I can find to eat at service stations. That...
2015-07-14 (first published: 2015-07-07)
2,599 reads
I’m on WOxPod! Podcast
A few weeks ago, while at SQL Saturday Philadelphia, Chris Bell, SQL Server MVP and co-leader of PASS DC user group graciously...
2015-06-29
846 reads
Analyzing Baby Names using Power BI
Me and my wife are contemplating names for our first baby we’re expecting in a couple of months! We don’t...
2015-06-16
787 reads
Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others
Here are the slides and links to awesome resources for my presentation, “Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others”
If you...
2014-04-29
2,629 reads
Read Flat File Contents to Variable – Write Variable Value to Flat File
When working with SSIS, you’ll often find the need to read the contents of a flat file to a variable,...
2014-04-22 (first published: 2014-04-08)
7,565 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
normal role member to be able to view list of other role members in his DB
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Stairway to Snowflake Level 5 - Using Snowflake with SnowSQL and Visual Studio Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Snowflake Level 5...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers