Power BI Basics of Modeling: Star Schema and How to Build it
Now that you know about the dimension and fact tab...
2019-05-22
PowerPivot/PowerView/PowerQuery/PowerBI
2019-05-22
Storing Large Images In Power BI Datasets
Jason Thomas and Gerhard Brueckl have both blogged on the subject of storing images as text inside a Power BI dataset: http://sqljason.com/2018/01/embedding-images-in-power-bi-using-base64.html https://blog.gbrueckl.at/base64/ Since they wrote those posts, however,...
2019-05-20
Power Query Comes To Azure Data Factory With Wrangling Data Flows
One of the many big announcements at Build this week, and one that caused a lot of discussion on Twitter, was about Wrangling Data Flows in Azure Data Factory....
2019-05-10
Column Profiling in Power BI Desktop
Adam walks through column profiling within the Power BI Desktop. This includes the latest updates with the general availability (GA) within the April 2019 Power BI Desktop release. Demo...
2019-05-09
Move Your Shared Tables to Dataflow; Build a Consistent Table in Power BI
I have written previously about the use cases of Dataflow in Power BI, and one of them was using one Power Query table in multiple Power BI reports. However,...
2019-05-08
Power BI: Build a custom KPI scorecard
Patrick walks you through how you can use Power BI to build a custom KPI scorecard. The key is the UNICHAR DAX function. Demo files: https://guyinacu.be/demofiles
The post Power BI:...
2019-05-08
Extracting All The M Code From A Power BI Dataset Using The DISCOVER_M_EXPRESSIONS DMV
DMVs (Dynamic Management Views) are, as the Analysis Services documentation states, “queries that return information about model objects, server operations, and server health”. They’re also available in Azure Analysis...
2019-05-08
Multi-select Dynamic Titles in Power BI Desktop
After the dynamic titles in Power BI Desktop video, we had questions about how to do multi-select values. Patrick shows you how to do it! Demo files: https://guyinacu.be/demofiles
The post...
2019-05-07
Basics of Modeling in Power BI: What is a Dimension Table and Why Say No to a Single Big Table
I have previously written about relationships and the cardinality of the relationship. Now is a good time to explain the two types of tables we deal with every day...
2019-05-06
Blogs
Azure SQL offerings
By James Serra
There are three Azure SQL products with so many different deployment options, service tiers,...
T-SQL Tuesday #183 Roundup
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I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions....
A Little Brainstorming with an AI
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I was asked to do some a little thinking and brainstorming recently. Rather than...
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MEMORYBROKER_FOR_RESERVE experience
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Moving Database Files
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Question of the Day
Mixed Backups
I have a complex database with a few filegroups and files. Can I run a backup command like this? (assume file/filegroup names are valid).
BACKUP DATABASE [complex]
FILE = N'thirdone'
, FILE = N'thirdtwo'
, FILEGROUP = N'second'
TO DISK = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQL2022\MSSQL\Backup\complex.bak'
WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'complex-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
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