The April 2023 release of Power BI desktop introduced a new preview feature called dynamic format strings for measures. This allows us to return values with different formats from...
2023-05-01 (first published: 2023-04-21)
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Did you know that you can change the browser used by SQL Server Management Studio to authenticate using Azure Active Directory to a SQL database in Azure? I had...
2023-04-12 (first published: 2023-03-28)
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In February 2023, Microsoft released some new Power BI themes that are more accessible than the other themes available by default. The blog post mentions the prevalence of color...
2023-02-25 (first published: 2023-02-24)
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I had to do this for a client the other day, and I realized I hadn’t blogged about it. Let’s say you need to include data in a Power...
2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-01-24)
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In early 2022, Microsoft released a new activity in Azure Data Factory (ADF) called the Script activity. The Script activity allows you to execute one or more SQL statements...
2023-01-09 (first published: 2022-12-22)
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People have done creative things with SVG measures in Power BI, ranging from KPI cards to infographics to fun games. For my latest Workout Wednesday challenge, I used SVG...
2022-12-28 (first published: 2022-12-15)
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There are multiple ways organizations can engage with a data (DBA/analytics/data architect/ML/etc.) consultant. The type of engagement you choose affects the pace and deliverables of the project, and the...
2022-12-26 (first published: 2022-12-06)
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Unity Catalog in Databricks provides a single place to create and manage data access policies that apply across all workspaces and users in an organization. It also provides a...
2022-12-07 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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I’ve seen a few people start Azure Data Factory (ADF) projects assuming that we would have one source control repo per environment, meaning that you would attach a Git...
2022-11-09 (first published: 2022-10-31)
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Over the last few years, I’ve had a few people ask me why I don’t create two Twitter accounts so I can separate work and personal things. I choose...
2022-10-07 (first published: 2022-09-26)
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By Vinay Thakur
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In a containerized app, React and Chakra UI provide a robust and accessible user...
By Steve Jones
nachlophobia – n. the fear that your deepest connections with people are ultimately pretty...
hi, I have a table called Rules Create table Rules ( Id int ,...
I am currently upgrading a very old database running SQL Server 2008 to SQL...
Hi Team, I am planning to apply security updates for SQL Server 2016 on...
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( SELECT COUNT (*) FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE soh.OrderDate > '01/01/2011' AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2012') AS OrdersIn2000
, ( SELECT COUNT (*) FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE soh.OrderDate > '01/01/2012' AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2013') AS OrdersIn2001
, ( SELECT COUNT (*) FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE soh.OrderDate > '01/01/2013' AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2014') AS OrdersIn2002; See possible answers