Learning by Combining Multiple Interests: Power BI, Social Media, Music and my Daughter A few weeks ago I discovered the Power BI Solution Template for Twitter Campaign/Brand Management. I’ve played with the template a bunch since then, made some discoveries, dug a little deeper and put it to use on a few occasions. I’ve used […]
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Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
I’ll be teaching a session on Spatial Data coming up this weekend at SQL Saturday, Washington DC. In the recent past, at the end of my presentation we have a little fun and use spatial methods to render a drawing of Hillary and Donald using only T-SQL. Honestly, I’m getting rather tired of that story, […]
Serving as an Idera ACE 2016-2017
I’m very proud to announce that I have been selected to participate in the 2016-2017 Idera ACE program. This means I’ll be able to participate and mentor others in the #sqlfamily more than ever before! My first event as an Idera ACE will be SQL Saturday, Lincoln NE. I’ll also be traveling to Washington, DC […]
Received the PASS Outstanding Volunteer Award
PASS is the Professional Association for SQL Server and is a Worldwide Organization with about 250,000 members. This is the 2nd time I’ve received this award, and I’m one of only 2 people to ever be awarded the designation more than once. I was also awarded this designation in June of 2015. It will be announced […]
Using Powershell to set Roles & Features required for MDS
This is my 3rd go-around installing MDS on SQL Server. I’ve been playing with it on each of the new SQL 2016 RC builds. Today I’m once again standing it up. Hey, practice makes perfect! One of the first things that needs to happen in order to get MDS up and running is that the […]