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SQLSaturday Baton Rouge

We are at it again. SQLSaturday in Baton Rouge, LA Saturday July 29th at the LSU Business Education building – SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2023 (#1060). We are first very thankful to the sponsors. They seem to always…

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SQLSaturday Baton Rouge BI Edition 2020

The session schedule has been released for the March 7th, 2020 SQLSaturday Baton Rouge BI Edition. It is great we have some wonderful sponsors as well as 24 unique speakers. You can browse the schedule here. The tracks…

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SQLSaturday Dallas #SQLSatDallas Did A Great Job!!!

The spent Saturday (6/1/2019) at another SQLSaturday. This one in Dallas, TX – #841. Since my session, Execution Plans SQL Server 2017 was the first session of the day, I plan a nice schedule of 5 sessions to…

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Power BI Read Only XMLA endpoints–Public Preview Premium Users

Microsoft announced the Public Preview in Premium Edition for XMLA endpoints.  What does that mean? Not too long from now, you will be able to connect to Data Sets created in Power BI unloaded to the service with…

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PASS Summit 2016-Thursday Part II

The second half of the day was spent talking with various speakers and attendees. I got into a great conversation about trying to mentor developers at work places about how to write good T-SQL. It was interesting to…

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PASS Summit 2016-Thursday Part 1

Today’s keynote was by David Dewitt. He did an excellent job explaining the architecture behind various Cloud Data Warehouse offerings. It was nice to get an explanation of the behind the scenes node and disk usage. One announcement…

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PASS Summit 2016-Wednesday

As all Summits, the first Regular Session day in Seattle started with the Keynote. Well, really it starts with a great breakfast at the Seattle Convention Center, but I digressed. Microsoft released information about new features for its…

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PASS Summit 2016–Tuesday

For the first day at the Summit this year, I spent half my time in a Pre-Conference session with Idera as an outgoing Idera Ace. The session include a 45 minute presentation for me on a Customer Use-Case….

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PASS Summit 2016 – Connect, Share, Learn

Please join me and about 4000+ other technology professionals for the annual PASS Summit in Seattle, WA October 24th – 28th. But before I talk about this year’s event, join me in a trip down memory lane about…

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SQLSaturday Atlanta #521 May 19th & 20th 2016

SQLSaturday events are a pleasure to be a part of whether it involves speaking or volunteering. Volunteering definitely takes more work and time, but to see someone who is interested in SQL Server as a career take time…

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