The popularity of Python continues to grow and grow as days go on. As companies begin to adopt cloud first approaches and the move to the Modern Data Warehouse, it’s important that as BI Developers, we are working towards building our skillsets to be ready for when the company gives […]
The Daily standup, is a useful but often abused tool within the day to day life of a Development team. If you’ve been in a standup before, you’ve probably been to some that were good, some that were bad, and others that became a full out complaint session. Most often […]
In preview for awhile now, we have additional capabilities of accessing our data in Azure without having to use SSMS or Azure Data Studio to query the data. This tool is called the Query Editor and allows us to query our Azure SQL Databases from the portal. This additional accessibility […]
As a Dev Manager, I spend a good deal of my day looking at where tasks are in an iteration or sprint. Sometimes, I’m lucky enough to know by the name of the task what will be involved. However, at times when I need something a little more refined to […]
This year while at Pass Summit, I had the honor of attending the Friend of RedGate party with an amazing group of Data Professionals. The majority of us know RedGate as a Software Solutions provider for the SQL Platform. But, last week I had the privilege of seeing another side […]
As a Data Services Manager, one of the services that my team provides is the extraction of data for the purposes of archival work, analysis work, or the loading of the ever growing data warehouse. One of the issues we face, is the time it takes to get the data […]
Last week marked my second trip to Pass Summit. To start my week of training off, I went to the SQL Server 2019 Workshop put on by the Microsoft SQL Server team. This was a Lab filled day, that showed you some of the great new features that the SQL […]
First off, welcome and thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. It’s my hope, that this blog will serve many purposes. Allow me to record my thoughts (Whether anyone wants to hear them or not is to be seen) Document the work that I am doing in […]
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