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Data
10 posts
Performance Tuning in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
(This was originally posted on 01/09/2016 on another site and has been moved here) Yesterday I spent over an hour with John Huang ([Azure SQL Data War…
Power Pivot & Power BI training in Bentonville at Walmart Intl Building
Here are Harvest, we’re proud of our partnerships. Last year we were fortunate to help Walmart International bring in Rob Collie who wrote the book on…
DAX calculation for local time versus UTC
[DAX](https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/677.powerbidataanalysisexpressionsdaxlanguage.aspx) is Microsoft’s powerful language…
Retail Link data storage requirements
I was asked today about how much data an average Retail Link analyst (Walmart vendor) would consume. I thought I would write this small post for futur…
Northwest Arkansas SQL Server User Group 1st Meeting
I have vastly been neglecting my blogging. So as not to be outdone by [Chris Koenig](http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig) .... I was able to meetup with th…
Getting more out of SQL Server Reporting Services Charts
Summary: This white paper presents general information, best practices, and tips for designing charts within Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services r…
SQL Injection article
It's hard to believe that SQL injection is still an issue. My friend Zain Naboulsi gave us a great overview of basic security hacks and how to defend …
SQL Server Reporting Services Licensing Info
After presenting at the [Tulsa SQL Server SIG](http://www.tulsasql.com/) I received the following question: According to all the blogs if you install …
SQL Server Management Pack
I found this nugget of a tool today. I haven't tried it out yet, but it sounds like one terrific tool. [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.asp…
Upcoming March speaking events - SQL Server Reporting Services
For those interested in hearing me speak (or avoiding me altogether ;) I will be speaking at the Tulsa SQL Server Group on March 17th, 2008 and at the…