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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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 (...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleBlog 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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