Power BI Architecture Diagram v2 is Now Available
I finally finished putting together version 2 of my Power BI architecture diagram. I previously put together an architecture diagram...
2016-06-18
964 reads
SQL with Dustin Ryan
What’s New in Reporting Services 2016
Today I had the pleasure of presenting to the Higher Ed Data Warehousing and BI Group. We discussed the long...
2016-06-21 (first published: 2016-06-14)
5,409 reads
Power BI Desktop May 2016 Update Info: Conditional Formatting and Quick Calc
*Update: The Power BI team has finally published a blog post with all the new features and its glorious! Read...
2016-05-31
1,309 reads
10 SQL Server Data Warehouse Design Best Practices to Follow (Part 1 )
This past Saturday I had the pleasure of speaking at SQL Saturday #552 here in beautiful Jacksonville, Florida. My good...
2016-05-24 (first published: 2016-05-16)
6,831 reads
Power BI and the Bing Maps API
This week I was working on a project for a school up North. This customer wanted to use Power BI...
2016-05-10 (first published: 2016-04-26)
4,139 reads
How to Use Data to Improve Student Outcomes with Microsoft Power BI
Almost fives months ago I joined Microsoft as a Data Platform Solutions Architect. As a DPSA for Microsoft, I am...
2016-04-01
657 reads
What’s New in Power BI Webinar Recording is Available
Thank you to everyone that attended my webinar with the PASS Excel BI Virtual Chapter today! I’d also like to...
2016-03-25
558 reads
View Getting Started with Power BI and Time Calculations with Dustin Ryan is Now Available!
Earlier today I had the pleasure of speaking with the PASS Business Intelligence Virtual Chapter on getting started with Power...
2016-02-09
904 reads
Power BI Publish to Web for Anonymous Access is Here
Earlier this week on Wednesday the Microsoft Power BI made an incredibly exciting announcement and released Power BI “publish to web”...
2016-02-05
1,922 reads
Microsoft & R Programming Session Materials & Resources Available
Last Thursday night I had the pleasure of speaking with Gregory Kramer and his friends at the Madison, WI Power...
2016-01-26
1,017 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
Microsoft Recommendations for Update Stats?
I have an application team that is insisting on daily (and for some, weekly)...
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
normal role member to be able to view list of other role members in his DB
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers