Business Intelligence Architect with Pragmatic Works spending most of my time in BI and data architecture. Also am a BSA scoutmaster and father of 4.
A few months ago, I wrote a post on how I use voice technology to continue working with my ALS condition. Since that post was written, Microsoft released a new voice technology called Voice Access …
When working with Azure Data Studio and its support of Jupyter books, you will find there is an option for remote Jupyter books. As shown in the image below, you can open that Jupyter book and foll…
As many of you are aware, I have been dealing with a progressive version of ALS which is affecting my hands and arms and thus my ability to type. Throughout this process I have been writing about t…
It was a lot of fun to speak at the Louisville Data Technology Group in February. Sheila and I presented on Jupyter notebooks in Azure Data Studio. The session was very fun with a lot of interestin…
Kristyna and I were working through some updates to our site and realize that this was going to be our 250th blog post on Data on Wheels. I thought this would be a good time to reminisce about wher…
Back in person again! It is awesome to be able to get back into the SQL community and see fellow data professionals. A huge shout out to the Memphis data community leaders in particular Zach Golden…
I’ve seen notebooks used in Azure Data Studio on multiple occasions. I really like the concept of notebooks, having done some work within Azure Databricks notebooks, but not extensively. As I…
This is the third in the series of tools and technologies that I use to deal with the loss of functionality in my hands and arms. Check out this article for the lead up to this series. Se…
I started this summary on LinkedIn. Check out that article here. I only used LinkedIn to introduce what is happening, if you’re interested in learning more keep reading. Kristyna Hughes First…
One of the tasks, we often do with migration projects is move large volumes of data. Depending on how you are configured, you may need to do the migration project in a development or UAT environmen…
While not the first time I have authored, this is the first book that I wrote as the sole author. Analysis Services is the product I built my career in business intelligence on and was happy to tak…
A little over a month ago, Pragmatic Works Consulting was a part of a merger that included 3Cloud and Applied Cloud Services over a period of a few months. Let’s look at the journey. June 30,…
This blog covers the content and points to the code used to create the demos in my Azure SQL Database Elasticity presentations. As of today, I have presented this at the Minnesota SQL Server User G…
Kristyna and I were looking for an update to our logo prior our sponsorship and speaking at the Minnesota SQL Server User Group (PASSMN) in September 2020. I had worked on the last logo with some h…
On August 4, 2020, I presented this on the weekly Pragmatic Works webinar series. You can view that presentation here. As part of that presentation, I committed to give you access to the databricks…
Pragmatic Works has done it again. Microsoft has recognized us for our work this year with two finalist awards — Power BI and PowerApps and Power Automate. This recognizes work we have done f…
I presented at the virtual Minnesota SQL Server User Group meeting on June 16, 2020. The topic was data classification with SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL Database. Data Classification Basics Data c…
I am very excited to announce that my daughter, Kristyna Hughes, will be joining the Data On Wheels team. Our fates and paths to this point seem parallel though not sequential. Both of us went to c…