Copying data from On Prem SQL to ADLS with ADF and Biml – Part 1
Apologies for the overly acronym-laden title as I was trying to keep it concise but descriptive. And we all know...
2017-03-03
611 reads
Data Savvy
Please Lend Me Your Vote for Documentation of TMSCHEMA DMVs
I spent a good bit of time looking for the definitions/descriptions of the TMSCHEMA DMVs that allow us to view...
2016-11-07
746 reads
Process Compatibility Level 1200 SSAS Tabular Model from SSIS 2014
A client wanted to upgrade their SSAS model to SSAS 2016 to take advantage of some of the features of...
2016-10-21 (first published: 2016-10-14)
4,716 reads
Documenting your Tabular or Power BI Model
If you were used to documenting your SSAS model using the MDSchema rowsets, you might have noticed that some of them...
2016-10-05
1,241 reads
BYO Time Zone Conversion With SSAS DMVs
This is just a quick note (since I apparently forgot and was puzzled for a moment) that the MDSCHEMA_CUBES DMV...
2016-09-21
467 reads
DAX Date Dimension and Fun with Date Math
I was working on a SSAS Tabular 2016 solution for a project for which I had no data (an empty...
2016-09-03
633 reads
Create a Date Dimension in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Most data warehouses and data marts require a date dimension or calendar table. Those of us that have been building...
2016-08-11 (first published: 2016-08-06)
2,415 reads
PolyBase Is A Picky Eater – Remove Carriage Returns Before Ingesting Text
Update: As Gerhard points out in the comments, switching to ORC files solves this issue nicely. It’s not human readable,...
2016-08-09 (first published: 2016-08-01)
2,130 reads
Using Context To Traverse Hierarchies In DAX
My friend and coworker Melissa Coates (aka @sqlchick) messaged me the other day to see if I could help with a...
2016-07-28
793 reads
BimlScript – Get to Know Your Control Nuggets
This is post #2 of my BimlScript – Get to Know Your Code Nuggets series. To learn about text nuggets, see my...
2016-07-01
461 reads
Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Sql script replace and rearrange numbers
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...