Webcast – Install & Configure SQL Server with PowerShell DSC
On Tuesday May 7th at 7 AM EDT (GMT -4) the PowerShell Virtual Group of PASS will host Jess Pomfret as she presents her session: Install & Configure SQL Server with PowerShell DSC.
Tagged: SQL Server
Execute SSIS Package from PowerShell
My friend Andy Leonard has written an excellent blog series on getting SSIS up & running in a Docker container. I would never have even tried to go down this road if not for...
What Chocolatey Packages Does a Business Intelligence Developer Need?
I’m getting a new work laptop next week: Hooray!! 😃 I’m going to have to install A LOT of software: Opportunity! 👍 Problem: I have a lot of meetings next week, and I don’t...
Group By Conference is Back April 11th!
I have joined forces with Blyther Morrow & Daniel Hutmacher to keep the GroupBy Virtual Conference going. We’re aiming to host the conference at least twice this year, and the next one is just...
Export AdventureWorksDW2017 to Excel for a Power BI Demo with Export-Excel
Have you ever wanted to export an entire SQL Server database to Excel file? Yeah, me neither. Until yesterday, when I was trying to build a Power BI demo with sample data (that needed...
I’m Speaking at Ignite in Orlando!
I’m excited to say that I will be speaking at Ignite this year in Orlando! I was at Ignite in Atlanta last year and it was an excellent experience. I’m really looking forward to...
[Quick Blog] SQL Server Cross-Platform Command Line Tools
Recently while I was on a conference call with some of the engineers from the SQL Server product team at Microsoft, the topic of their new multi-platform scripting tool came up. I told them...
DevOps or DataOps Either Way It’s Coming to SQL Server
For T-SQL Tuesday #91 the topic is databases and devops. Grant Fritchey asks us: How do we approach DevOps as developers, DBAs, report writers, analysts and database developers? How do we deal with data...
