How to get Power BI RLS to work with external users
Let me start by thanking Adam Saxton aka Guy in a Cube and Hope Foley for helping me with this...
2016-10-06
3,288 reads
SQLDownSouth
Happy Birthday Power BI
Well today marks the one year anniversary since the initial release of Power BI. We all have watched this product...
2016-07-24
795 reads
Join me at SQL Saturday 531, Louisville, KY
So, I have the privilege of not only delivering a regular session, Introduction to Power BI Desktop, at SQL Saturday...
2016-07-21
619 reads
Using Power BI to list Enterprise Only SQL Features
Someone recently asked me if there was a list of all the SQL Server “Enterprise Only” features available on the...
2016-07-19
641 reads
What’s wrong with the Power BI KPI Visual?
Over the past couple of weeks I have been asked several times about the KPI Visual that is native to...
2016-07-06
1,988 reads
Higher Education Retention Analytics using Power BI
Partnering with Stetson University, I am happy to share the first of many Power BI Higher Education Analytics solutions. This...
2016-06-06 (first published: 2016-06-01)
2,325 reads
SQL Saturday 486: Richmond, VA Precon
Thursday afternoon I am flying to Richmond, VA to deliver my full day Power BI Beginning to End and attend...
2016-03-14
1,050 reads
Refreshing KPI Data in SSRS 2016
Continuing my blog from last week, Creating KPIs in SQL Reporting Services, I am now going to explain how to...
2016-03-01 (first published: 2016-02-23)
4,121 reads
More SQL Saturday Precon News(Real-time Dashboards)!!!!
As you read in my earlier post, I am delivering a couple of precons in Tampa, FL and Richmond, VA. ...
2016-02-19
1,216 reads
Creating KPIs in SQL Reporting Services
In this blog I will explain how to create a Key Performance Indicatory (KPI) in SQL Reporting Services 2016. Let’s...
2016-02-22 (first published: 2016-02-17)
6,796 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