Changing the 1000 separator in Power View
Recently I was designing a simple Power View report on top of a multi-dimensional SSAS cube. Out of the box,...
2014-03-11
998 reads
Koen Verbeeck
Thinking with Data by Max Shron
DISCLAIMER
I recently enrolled myself in the O’Reilly Blogger Review program, which basically allows me to get one O’Reilly eBook for...
2014-02-27
1,190 reads
Dude, where’s my Power Map?
If you haven’t noticed lately, Power Map has gone into General Availability as of 25 of February 2014. It comes...
2014-03-06 (first published: 2014-02-26)
2,727 reads
Dealing with the mysterious “True” column in BIML
Recently I ran into the following error when compiling BIML into SSIS packages:
The message itself is not very revealing:
The data...
2014-02-18
1,011 reads
Calculating the length of a hash in SQL Server
Some time ago I added a script component to a few SSIS packages to compare rows with each other using...
2014-02-11
2,560 reads
Master Data Services (Second Edition) – Review
For the preparation of my upcoming talk about SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services on the Microsoft Business Analytics Day...
2014-01-31
1,923 reads
Star Schema The Complete Reference – Review
I finished my first book of this year and here’s the review! After I finished the newest edition of Ralph...
2014-01-23
1,180 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #50: Automation, how much of it is the same?
It’s the second Tuesday of the New Year, so here comes the first T-SQL Tuesday of 2014! SQLChow (blog | twitter)...
2014-01-14
673 reads
Happy 2014
I am a bit late with the almost obligatory “How was my past year and how do I think next...
2014-01-07
584 reads
Nominated for the Tribal Awards
I’ve been notified I am a finalist for the category Best New Voice at the Tribal Awards. These awards are...
2013-12-19
1,047 reads
Blogs
What is ALM in Fabric?
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who’s worked with data for over 20 years and with many cloud...
The Most Successful Startups in 2025 — And What They Have in Common
By HeyMo0sh
2025 belongs to the AI startups. If you peek into the tech headlines, you’ll...
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers