Updating PowerPivot model and PowerView report with PowerShell
Before I start describing a problem that my PowerShell script helps to resolve, these are a few blog posts of...
2015-06-18
4,797 reads
Data Adventures
Powershell for SSRS in SharePoint: Multiple data sources and shared datasets
I thought that I would leave any further attempts to improve my Powershell script that was used to deploy SSRS...
2015-05-14
3,836 reads
Big Data Hackathon in Microsoft Canada: Power Map will find your way!
Big Data, what a term! Some people instantly think of a huge sometimes cumbersome volume of information, others define it...
2015-04-10
1,636 reads
SSRS report footer is NOT lost in Excel
With all the recent changes and updates within the Microsoft PowerBI universe, SSRS core technology gets less and less attention....
2015-04-07 (first published: 2015-03-31)
14,119 reads
PowerPivot Saga 2: DAX OR function (OR there is something better)
I didn't realize that the DAX OR function only accepts 2 arguments compared with the similar function in Excel where a limit of...
2014-12-24
12,947 reads
PowerPivot Saga: Scheduled Refresh more than once a day
PowerPivot data models in Excel is a great way to quickly pull data from various sources, build relationship between different...
2014-11-03
2,471 reads
SSRS report rendered in EXCELOPENXML then something went missing
Recently I had been requested by a client to look into one of their SSRS reports issues. They had one...
2014-10-16
3,160 reads
SSIS Pivot makes you stronger
At the recent Toronto SQL Server User group meeting Michal J Swart (@MJSwart) gave a good presentation based on 10...
2014-10-15
900 reads
SSRS report: Multi-value parameter going after Data-driven subscription
It is always good to enrich SSRS reports with multi-value parameters; users have more flexibility to combine different reporting scenario...
2014-09-03 (first published: 2014-08-27)
27,868 reads
Power View report migration from SharePoint 2010 to 2013
With the latest changes to the Microsoft Power BI and ability to create Power View reports within an Excel file...
2014-07-31 (first published: 2014-07-24)
8,224 reads
Blogs
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
Forums
AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers