Steve Hughes@DataOnWheels

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.

 Minneapolis, MN
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Joined May 2011
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Typing with Your Tongue Part 2: Voice Access dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

Typing with Your Tongue Part 2: Voice Access

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 …

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Building, Deploying, Sharing a Remote Jupyter Book in Azure Data Studio dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

Building, Deploying, Sharing a Remote Jupyter Book in Azure Data Studio

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…

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The Microsoft Ability Summit in Review dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

The Microsoft Ability Summit in Review

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…

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Out of Your SSMS World, Jupyter Notebooks in Azure Data Studio – Louisville Data Technology Group, Feb 2023 dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

Out of Your SSMS World, Jupyter Notebooks in Azure Data Studio – Louisville Data Technology Group,...

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…

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250th Blog Post dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

250th Blog Post

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…

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Memphis SQL Saturday 2022 & a Notebook dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

Memphis SQL Saturday 2022 & a Notebook

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…

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My experience working with notebooks in Azure Data Studio dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

My experience working with notebooks in Azure Data Studio

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…

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Fast Fingers-Function Keypads dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

Fast Fingers-Function Keypads

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…

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The Impact of Change dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

The Impact of Change

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…

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Moving Synapse Databases Between Subscriptions - Practical Guidance #Azure #Synapse #SQLPool dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

Moving Synapse Databases Between Subscriptions – Practical Guidance

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…

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I Wrote a Book – Hands-On SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

I Wrote a Book – Hands-On SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services

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…

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Welcome to 3Cloud ... a continuing journey in consulting for me dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

Welcome to 3Cloud …

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,…

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Azure SQL Database Elasticity – Presentation Notes dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

Azure SQL Database Elasticity – Presentation Notes

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…

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New Logo, More Family Contributions. Data on wheels and Northern Geek Productions dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

New Logo, More Family Contributions

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…

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Your First Databricks Notebook dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

Your First Databricks Notebook

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…

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Congratulations to Pragmatic Works – Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalists, Again dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

Congratulations to Pragmatic Works – Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalists, Again

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…

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PASSMN June 2020 – Data Classification with SQL Server and Azure dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

PASSMN June 2020 – Data Classification with SQL Server and Azure

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…

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Data On Wheels - Merging Two Great Minds. Kristyna joins the Data On Wheels team! dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…

Data On Wheels – Merging Two Great Minds

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…

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Starting and Stopping SQL Server with PowerShell #powershell #sqlserver2019 dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…
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Power BI, Dataflows, CDM, and Dynamics 365 – My Journey dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2…
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