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Blog Post: PASS – Time To Get Your Vote On

I can remember pretty vividly the first time I attended a PASS function. It is something that profoundly changed my outlook on my career and how I view the SQL community as a whole. With that said...

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Blog Post: Fall 2013 Tour Dates

I was just looking at my upcoming tour dates, trying to get my head around the fact that I’ll be logging about 40,000 miles in just 8 weeks. What’s not to love about working with our fine TSA Agents...

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Blog Post: PASS Board Elections Open

The Slate A few weeks ago I wrote that I applied to be on the slate for the PASS Board election.  Today the list of candidates has been officially announced and I am happy to say that a group of...

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Blog Post: Dell’s Own Richard Douglas Runs for PASS Board of Directors

PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server), the world’s premier learning and support community for SQL Server folk, is holding elections for three new board member seats beginning this week. Dell...

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Blog Post: Power BI Preview Review Part 2: Q&A

Today the natural language query functionality in Power BI, Q&A, was enabled in my Power BI Preview tenant. This is the last major piece of functionality to be added to the Preview, and of course...

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Blog Post: Power BI Review Part 2: Q&A

Today the natural language query functionality in Power BI, Q&A, was enabled in my Power BI Preview tenant. This is the last major piece of functionality to be added to the Preview, and of course...

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Blog Post: What I hope to achieve by being a PASS Board of Director member

I'm delighted to be in the final 7 for the slate for the PASS Board of Elections.  Watch out for your ballot email tomorrow, the 25th September. Information about all of the candidates can be found...

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Blog Post: DBA Myths: You can’t use an alias in a DELETE statement

Recently I wrote about the myth that you can’t use an alias in an UPDATE statement . You can of course, and the trick is to make sure that the alias is used in the FROM clause of the statement. That...

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Blog Post: My top 5 tasks for implementing as a PASS Board member, and a...

One of the SQLFamily I was lucky to meet at SQLRally Dallas, TJay Belt, posted a great question on the SQLPass Election Discussion Board : What are your top 5 tasks you would implement right now, if...

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Blog Post: PASS Elections part two

Tim Ford is running for a seat on the PASS Board of Directors and has my vote. Yes I think we need to have a “TIM” on the Board of Directors. I have known Tim for a few years now. We have attended...

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Blog Post: Data Warehouse vs Master Data Managment

Sometimes I see confusion on the difference between a data warehouse (DW) and master data management (MDM).  Below is a good list of how they differ.  Note the typical scenario is the data in a MDM...

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Blog Post: why experience matters

  I’ve been fortunate enough to have gained a wealth of experience with PASS over the last 9 years.  Serving in as many different roles as I have has allowed me to see the organization from most...

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Blog Post: PASS BoD Election Questions – Global Vs Local

TJay Belt ( Blog | Twitter ) posted the following question on the PASS Board of Directors forum With so much emphasis lately on the global reach and growth of PASS, how will you as a candidate balance...

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Blog Post: Are Monitoring Tools Working for You or Working You Over?

Since Microsoft SQL Server features several embedded tools to monitor events within the server and to refine the physical database design for optimization, it’s likely many of you are already...

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Blog Post: Data Warehouse/Mart Loading: An alternate loading approach...

When loading dimensions into a warehouse, one of the more time consuming pieces of development is the comparison between the source data, and the destination dimension. Additionally, comparing the...

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Blog Post: PASS Board of Directors Election: Question Regarding Summit Location

As you may have seen in my post yesterday “ PASS Board of Directors Election: Candidates announced ” I am running for the PASS Board of Directors. As part of the process PASS has invited it’s members...

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Blog Post: Organization Charts of the Big Companies

This chart has been out for a while and it shows how these different companies (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Oracle) are/were organized: • Amazon - Classic mafia structure, the don (...

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Blog Post: SQL Server – Custom sorting in ORDER BY clause

ORDER BY clause can be used to sort the results returned by SELECT statement in SQL Server. It orders the result set by specified column list. When used with character data type columns it sorts data...

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Blog Post: I’m speaking at SQL Server Saturday #233 – Washington DC!

It’s that time of the year again when SQL Saturday makes its way back to the Washington DC Area. Here is a link to register and to get all the details you need...

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Blog Post: SSIS Execute SQL error – No disconnected record set is available

If you get the error in SSIS that says: …failed with the following error: “No disconnected record set is available for the specified SQL statement.”. Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query,...

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