SQL PASS Summit 2011 Recap
This week has been an exciting and memorable week for me. The last PASS Summit I attended was in 2009...
2011-10-14
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Devin Knight
PerformancePoint – Using SSAS Actions
The latest project I worked on had a heavy dose of PerformancePoint and one of the requirements was to launch...
2011-09-23
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SSRS – Dealing with truncating spaces
I apologize ahead of time on this post today because it will require lots of pre explanation and screenshots to...
2011-09-22
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PASS Pre Con - Building a Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform
PASS Summit is quickly approaching and while many of you are registering I wanted to remind you of some of...
2011-09-07
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SSIS - Inferred Member Insert in Fact Table Load
Recently while working on a different solution for loading inferred member solution in our fact table load I ran into...
2011-08-16
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PowerPivot – Commonly Used DAX Expressions
Today I will be presenting in a webinar, which by the way is recorded for later viewing, on Commonly used...
2011-08-11
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PowerPivot – Creating KPIs
Probably one of the most anticipated additions to the latest version of PowerPivot is the ability to create KPIs. PowerPivot...
2011-08-08
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PowerPivot – Perspectives
PowerPivot – Perspectives
Many times when developing larger Analysis Services cubes you may find it necessary to use Perspectives to logically split...
2011-08-05
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PowerPivot – Creating Hierarchies
Hierarchies are one of the long awaited features that will now be available in the latest version of PowerPivot. Hierarchies...
2011-07-31
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Modified Insert Unknown Row to Dimension Table
A little over a year ago Patrick LeBlanc wrote a blog post about inserting an unknown row into a dimension. ...
2011-07-29
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Blogs
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Forums
Can someone please explain what happens?
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects:...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers