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)
3,911 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)
3,185 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)
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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)
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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
780 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)
2,609 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
852 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
799 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
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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)
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
Forums
AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers