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"01a0d1d4-35b8-7214-a100-e13c8db2da34", "title": "The real reason to become self-employed: being a caretaker.", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2019/02/01/the-real-reason-to-become-self-employed-being-a-caretaker/", "published_at": "2019-02-01T16:32:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-35b8-7214-a100-e13c8de25c17", "title": "T-SQL Tuesday #110–Automation is relative", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2019/01/08/t-sql-tuesday-110-automation-is-relative/", "published_at": "2019-01-08T18:29:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-35b8-7214-a100-e13c8e2d2ea7", "title": "First impressions: SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/12/18/first-impressions-sql-administration-inside-out/", "published_at": "2018-12-18T12:00:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-35b8-7214-a100-e13c8ec63106", "title": "Lessons learned from being self-employed, 3 months in", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/12/12/lessons-from-being-self-employed-3-months-in/", "published_at": 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"https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/11/06/power-bi-learning-path-free-and-paid-resources/", "published_at": "2018-11-06T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-83f3-7372-8c23-102b6c843804", "title": "I’m starting a BI newsletter. 5 BI links every week.", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/11/04/im-starting-a-bi-newsletter-5-bi-links-every-week/", "published_at": "2018-11-04T16:59:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-83f3-7372-8c23-102b6ccc35e4", "title": "The many tentacles of Power BI; or, Microsoft’s not-so-secret plan to take over the world.", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/10/23/the-many-tentacles-of-power-bi-or-microsofts-not-so-secret-plan-to-take-over-the-world/", "published_at": "2018-10-23T16:13:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-83f3-7372-8c23-102b6d865066", "title": "New Course: Deploying and Publishing Power BI Reports", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/10/16/new-course-deploying-and-publishing-power-bi-reports/", "published_at": "2018-10-17T03:30:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-83f3-7372-8c23-102b6e2fac29", "title": "T-SQL Tuesday #107: Death March", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/10/09/t-sql-tuesday-107-death-march/", "published_at": "2018-10-09T13:53:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-83f3-7372-8c23-102b6e6dbbc4", "title": "#SQLChefs: Power BI Datasets, Reports and Dashboards", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/10/02/sqlchefs-power-bi-datasets-reports-and-dashboards/", "published_at": "2018-10-02T11:00:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-83f3-7372-8c23-102b6ea8dfd9", "title": "Power BI Error: R cannot be added to gateway", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/09/25/power-bi-error-r-cannot-be-added-to-gateway/", "published_at": "2018-09-25T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-83f3-7372-8c23-102b6f26b8d4", "title": "TSQL Tuesday: Who is on my server?", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/09/12/tsql-tuesday-who-is-on-my-server/", "published_at": "2018-09-12T05:09:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-83f3-7372-8c23-102b7003563c", "title": "Doing the bare minimum to stop toxic behavior", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/08/12/doing-the-bare-minimum-to-stop-toxic-behavior/", "published_at": "2018-08-12T15:39:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-83f3-7372-8c23-102b703b19c3", "title": "SQL Saturday Philadelphia: Power BI Precon", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/04/17/sql-saturday-philadelphia-power-bi-precon/", "published_at": "2018-04-17T13:52:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-be7f-7148-9c92-26e4bcc78900", "title": "M vs DAX: Chopping Broccoli vs Planning a Menu", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/04/03/m-vs-dax-chopping-broccoli-vs-planning-a-menu/", "published_at": "2018-04-03T07:00:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-be7f-7148-9c92-26e4bccef521", "title": "Are local credentials or passwords stored in the Power BI Desktop file?", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/03/22/are-local-credentials-or-passwords-stored-in-the-power-bi-desktop-file/", "published_at": "2018-03-22T17:14:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-be7f-7148-9c92-26e4bd9e8418", "title": "TSQL Tuesday #100: Industry changes and Meidinger’s Law", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/03/14/tsql-tuesday-100-industry-changes-and-meidingers-law/", "published_at": "2018-03-14T00:52:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-be7f-7148-9c92-26e4be5a016e", "title": "T-SQL Tuesday #99: I’m secretly a LARPer", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/02/13/secretly-a-larper/", "published_at": "2018-02-13T00:09:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-be7f-7148-9c92-26e4beb39346", "title": "Deploying Power BI: Scaling from 5 to 5000", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/02/09/deploying-power-bi-scaling-from-5-to-5000/", "published_at": "2018-02-09T06:50:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-be7f-7148-9c92-26e4bedaaacf", "title": "Power BI Precon Wrap-up, Cleveland 2018", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/02/04/power-bi-precon-wrap-up-cleveland-2018/", "published_at": "2018-02-04T13:47:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-be7f-7148-9c92-26e4bf3bfbe4", "title": "Power BI Desktop files are smaller now", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/01/30/power-bi-desktop-files-are-smaller-now/", "published_at": "2018-01-30T12:47:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-be7f-7148-9c92-26e4bffdb3cb", "title": "Power BI Precon: Implementing the other 90%", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/01/22/power-bi-precon-implementing-the-other-90/", "published_at": "2018-01-22T00:08:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-be7f-7148-9c92-26e4c03acee7", "title": "Building a DBA Salary Calculator, Part 0: Initial findings", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/01/14/building-a-dba-salary-calculator-part-0-initial-findings/", "published_at": "2018-01-14T13:55:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-be7f-7148-9c92-26e4c050f250", "title": "T-SQL Tuesday #98: Learning Troubleshooting from Games", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2018/01/09/tsql-tuesday-98-learning-troubleshooting-from-games/", "published_at": "2018-01-09T21:10:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-f1d8-7094-8f3a-c800f93da9bb", "title": "Practicing Statistics: Female DBAs and Salary", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2017/12/29/practicing-statistics-female-dbas-and-salary/", "published_at": "2017-12-29T23:11:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-f1d8-7094-8f3a-c800f988bf30", "title": "Slides and Code for Wisconsin User Group", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2017/12/12/slides-and-code-for-wisconsin-user-group/", "published_at": "2017-12-12T23:58:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-f1d8-7094-8f3a-c800fa66d3f1", "title": "Code for my PASS Summit Presentation 2017", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2017/11/02/code-for-my-pass-summit-presentation-2017/", "published_at": "2017-11-02T02:18:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-f1d8-7094-8f3a-c800fac02eba", "title": "Do you need pro licensing to administer Power BI Premium?", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2017/07/25/do-you-need-pro-licensing-to-administer-power-bi-premium/", "published_at": "2017-07-25T11:45:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-f1d8-7094-8f3a-c800fac7821a", "title": "New presentation: just enough database theory for Power 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GroupBy.org", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2017/04/28/how-to-write-a-good-abstract-for-groupby-org/", "published_at": "2017-04-28T12:18:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d1d4-f1d8-7094-8f3a-c800fde29b1a", "title": "Things I like about the changes to PASS Summit submission process", "url": "https://www.sqlgene.com/2017/04/15/things-i-like-about-the-changes-to-pass-summit-submission-process/", "published_at": "2017-04-15T01:54:32+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Can AI replace Power BI and Fabric experts?original ↗
17 Mar 2026
A beginners guide to vibe engineering: Welcome to Vegasoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2026
How I keep up with AI, and why you honestly shouldn’toriginal ↗
9 Feb 2026
Is AI taking our Power BI jobs? Not exactly, but it’s getting bumpy.original ↗
28 Jan 2026
Lessons learned from Self-employment: 7 years inoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2026
Learning Claude Code, a wild 3 weeks, and the looming mental health crisisoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2026

2025

The Power BI modeling MCP server in plain Englishoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2025
Learning to Use LLMs as a Data Practitioneroriginal ↗
8 Nov 2025
Power BI Consulting: What Is in the Course?original ↗
6 Apr 2025
SUM and SUMX often have identical performance.original ↗
21 Mar 2025
Microsoft Fabric Guidance for Small Businessesoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2025
Announcing the Figuring out Fabric Podcast!original ↗
20 Jan 2025
Should Power BI be Detached from Fabric?original ↗
16 Jan 2025
How Power BI Dogma Leads to a Lack of Understandingoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2025
The fraught ethics around AI, ChatGPT, and Power BI.original ↗
1 Jan 2025

2024

Lessons learned from Self-employment: 6 years inoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2024
Fabric Benchmarking Part 1: Copying CSV Files to OneLake.original ↗
15 Dec 2024
Fabric Licensing from Scratchoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2024
Benchmarking Power BI import speed for local data sourcesoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2024
Power BI performance tuning – what’s in the course?original ↗
6 Feb 2024
Fabric Ridealong week 4 – Who invented this?original ↗
1 Jan 2024

2023

Lessons learned from being self-employed: 5 years inoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2023
Fabric Ridealong Week 3 – Trying to put it into a tableoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2023
Fabric ridealong Week 2 – getting the data uploadedoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2023
Fabric ride-along Week 1 – Reviewing the dataoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2023
Fabric project ride-along: Week 0 – let’s wing itoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2023
Hustle culture, welcoming everyone, and taking care of yourself.original ↗
4 Apr 2023
How I evaluate personal safety at tech conferencesoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2023
Why I’m struggling with learning Azure Synapseoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2023
Lessons learned from being self-employed: 4 years inoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2023

2022

Getting over yourself: 5 reasons why you should presentoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2022
How session selection worked with the old PASSoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2022
Why I appreciate it when folks share their pronounsoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2022

2021

Lessons learned from being self-employed, 3 years inoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2021
Why a Code of Conduct is Valuableoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2021
My thoughts on diversity in tech conferencesoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2021

2020

My experiences as a PASS program manager: improving transparency is hardoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2020
T-SQL Tuesday #131: Power BI ELI5original ↗
13 Oct 2020
Lessons learned from being self-employed, 2 years inoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2020
Five ways to reduce impostor syndromeoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2020

2019

Where do people get stuck with Power BI?original ↗
15 Oct 2019
What convinced me that diversity is important?original ↗
8 Oct 2019
Query folding workaround for Azure Devops and Power BIoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2019
A comprehensive guide to Power BI performance tuningoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2019
Resources for Freelancers – Free and Paidoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2019
Lessons learned from being self-employed, 12 months inoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2019
GroupBy Conf was a stepping stone in my career. You should submit a session.original ↗
29 Aug 2019
T-SQL Tuesday #116 – I only do demos on SQL for Linuxoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2019
Are You the Same as Your Business?original ↗
28 May 2019
Power Query Is No Longer DAX’s Little Brotheroriginal ↗
21 May 2019
T-SQL Tuesday #114 – An Unsolved SQL Puzzleoriginal ↗
14 May 2019
Push Your Outlook Calendar to Google Calendar with Microsoft Floworiginal ↗
7 May 2019
DAX Error: The Expression Refers to Multiple Columns. Multiple Columns Cannot Be Converted to a Scalar Value.original ↗
30 Apr 2019
Fumbling in the Dark with DevOps and Automationoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2019
DAX error: A function ‘XXXX’ has been used in a True/False expression that is used as a table filter expression. This is not allowed.original ↗
16 Apr 2019
Getting Kubernetes and Containers to “click” for meoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2019
T-SQL Tuesday #113: A year of marriage and boardgamesoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2019
Lessons learned from being self-employed, 6 months in.original ↗
4 Apr 2019
Parameters not yet supported in Power BI Aggregationsoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2019
Should You Get Certified?original ↗
5 Mar 2019
Create a Power Query custom data connector in 10 minutesoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2019
T-SQL Tuesday #111 – What is your why?original ↗
12 Feb 2019
The real reason to become self-employed: being a caretaker.original ↗
1 Feb 2019
T-SQL Tuesday #110–Automation is relativeoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2019

2018

First impressions: SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Outoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2018
Lessons learned from being self-employed, 3 months inoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2018
New Power BI skill assessment on Pluralsightoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2018
Why is Power BI Free?original ↗
27 Nov 2018
Is Power BI free?original ↗
20 Nov 2018
How I deal with depressionoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2018
Power BI Learning Path – Free and Paid Resourcesoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2018
I’m starting a BI newsletter. 5 BI links every week.original ↗
4 Nov 2018
The many tentacles of Power BI; or, Microsoft’s not-so-secret plan to take over the world.original ↗
23 Oct 2018
New Course: Deploying and Publishing Power BI Reportsoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2018
T-SQL Tuesday #107: Death Marchoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2018
#SQLChefs: Power BI Datasets, Reports and Dashboardsoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2018
Power BI Error: R cannot be added to gatewayoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2018
TSQL Tuesday: Who is on my server?original ↗
12 Sept 2018
Doing the bare minimum to stop toxic behaviororiginal ↗
12 Aug 2018
SQL Saturday Philadelphia: Power BI Preconoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2018
M vs DAX: Chopping Broccoli vs Planning a Menuoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2018
Are local credentials or passwords stored in the Power BI Desktop file?original ↗
22 Mar 2018
TSQL Tuesday #100: Industry changes and Meidinger’s Laworiginal ↗
14 Mar 2018
T-SQL Tuesday #99: I’m secretly a LARPeroriginal ↗
13 Feb 2018
Deploying Power BI: Scaling from 5 to 5000original ↗
9 Feb 2018
Power BI Precon Wrap-up, Cleveland 2018original ↗
4 Feb 2018
Power BI Desktop files are smaller noworiginal ↗
30 Jan 2018
Power BI Precon: Implementing the other 90%original ↗
22 Jan 2018
Building a DBA Salary Calculator, Part 0: Initial findingsoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2018
T-SQL Tuesday #98: Learning Troubleshooting from Gamesoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2018

2017

Practicing Statistics: Female DBAs and Salaryoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2017
Slides and Code for Wisconsin User Grouporiginal ↗
12 Dec 2017
Code for my PASS Summit Presentation 2017original ↗
2 Nov 2017
Do you need pro licensing to administer Power BI Premium?original ↗
25 Jul 2017
New presentation: just enough database theory for Power BIoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2017
Why DAX is a PITA: part 1original ↗
8 Jul 2017
Wrangling GotoWebinar Stats with Power Query: Part oneoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2017
Keeping up with Technology: a Guide to Drinking from the Firehoseoriginal ↗
30 May 2017
How to write a good abstract for GroupBy.orgoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2017
Things I like about the changes to PASS Summit submission processoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2017
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