Color Themes for Power BI
Color coordination is important in report and dashboard design. We’ve seen theming and color pallet options in the prior iteration...
2016-03-22
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Annual Business Intelligence Survey
This is a reminder to compete the annual Business Intelligence product survey conducted by BARC Research. I’ve been participating in...
2016-03-15
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Article Series: Power BI Solutions for the Enterprise
I’m working on a series of articles about creating enterprise solutions with Power BI and the first article was published...
2016-02-28
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI/BA and the Lone Three Leaders
History clearly confirms that good things come in threes. As far as I know this is the first time that...
2016-02-05
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Webcast: Upgrading and Migrating SQL Server 2005 BI Features to SQL Server 2014 and 2016
Please join me on February 3rd at 10 Pacific Time for this presentation brought to you by Microsoft and SolidQ...
2016-01-26
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Tabular Models, Multiple Data Sources and Unknown Members
Self-service data modeling tools like Power BI Desktop, Power Pivot and SSAS Tabular promote the advantage of using data from...
2015-12-29
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SQL Server 2005 End of Support and Business Intelligence
How does the official end of support for SQL Server 2005 affect companies using Reporting Services, Analysis Services and other...
2015-12-02 (first published: 2015-11-24)
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Complete DAX Function Reference
The DAX function documentation in MSDN can be found on separate pages, organized by function categories and then details for...
2015-11-26
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The Resurrection of Reporting Services & The Maturing of Power BI
Spending the past two weeks at the annual PASS Global Summit and the Microsoft MVP Summit, I’ve consumed a literal...
2015-11-12
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Oregon SQL Saturday 2015 Keynote
This year we are honored to have a particularly special guest kicking off our SQL Saturday event on October 24th. ...
2015-10-02
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Blogs
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A Little Brainstorming with an AI
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I was asked to do some a little thinking and brainstorming recently. Rather than...
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MEMORYBROKER_FOR_RESERVE experience
Hi, Does anyone have experience with MEMORYBROKER_FOR_RESERVE ? when suddenly there is somehow constantly...
Moving Database Files
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Question of the Day
Mixed Backups
I have a complex database with a few filegroups and files. Can I run a backup command like this? (assume file/filegroup names are valid).
BACKUP DATABASE [complex]
FILE = N'thirdone'
, FILE = N'thirdtwo'
, FILEGROUP = N'second'
TO DISK = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQL2022\MSSQL\Backup\complex.bak'
WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'complex-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
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