What is OneLake in Microsoft Fabric?
Learn about Microsoft Fabric and OneLake which is a single logical data lake for the entire Fabric platform in your organization.
2023-12-29
Additional Articles
Most Overlooked Features in Power BI
Learn about some of the overlooked but extremely useful features when building Power BI reports and dashboards.
2023-12-27
Building Reports with Power BI vs Tableau from SQL Server Data
Learn about Power BI vs Tableau reporting comparison with SQL Server data to see the query differences when retrieving data.
2023-12-25
Docker Security Principles Overview
Docker is an open-source platform that enables developers to automate the deployment and management of applications using containerization. It was created by Solomon Hykes and his team at Docker, Inc., and was first released in 2013.
2023-12-25
What is Microsoft Fabric all about?
In this article, we will introduce Microsoft Fabric and how it relates to Power BI Premium Capacity we will turn to the mechanics of capacity utilization, and we will briefly look at how to monitor the performance loads of our Fabric resources.
2023-12-22
Sending resource alerts on Managed Instance using db_mail
One of the biggest issue that you might experience in Managed Instance is reaching storage limit or finding out that you don't have enough CPU. In this case you would need to get the bigger instance; however, this is not instant operation. In this post, you will see how you can monitor resource usage and send email alerts if there is a risk that you might reach the limits.
2023-12-20
Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric
Source control is fundamental when dealing with projects and sharing code between multiple developers. Power BI present some challenges related to source control. But it’s finally providing us with a solution to these challenges. Let’s analyse this piece-by-piece.
2023-12-18
Running Azure CosmosDB queries from SQL Server using ODBC driver
Azure CosmosDB provides ODBC driver that enables you to query CosmosDB collections like classic databases. In this post you will see how to query CosmosDB collections from Sql Server using Transact-Sql.
2023-12-15
When an update doesn’t update
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: I changed data from my application, but when I checked the database, I couldn’t see the change! I’ve seen this. Loads. It can be quite perplexing for folks because they expect to see an error message if the insert, update, or delete failed.
2023-12-15
SQL GROUP BY Alias - An Oracle feature that would be great in SQL Server
Learn about using an alias in the GROUP BY clause for complex SQL Server code instead of having to rewrite the code in the GROUP BY.
2023-12-13
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USE Sales; GO CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256 ENCRYPTION BY SERVER CERTIFICATE MyServerCert; GOThis works, but I want to prepare for the future and potential issues. How do I back up my DEK? See possible answers