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We are Katie & Emil and together we have decided to learn more & more on how to build data warehouses using Microsoft products. The best option to learn is to teach so we write tutorials and share it with others.
Archives: July 2012
This is one of our first PowerPivot video tutorials and this short 1 minute tutorial we show how to enable PowerPivot Add-in in Excel 2013. View blog post: http://www.katieandemil.com/457 Read more
In this blog post I show steps that are needed to enable Transparent Data Encyption on a SQL Server 2012 database. I prepared the article to support my learning to 70-462 Administering SQL Server 2012. View Article: http://www.katieandemil.com/456 Read more
You can change server properties of SQL Server using sp_confgure and to "save" it you need to use reconfigure. In this blog post I describe the difference between reconfigure and reconfigure with override. I also provide an example when reconfigure will fail and give you an error message and another… Read more
In this SSIS 2012 tutorial we will show you how to use data flow Aggregate Transformation and we will use our example of Customer and Total Sales Amount which is an interesting example as often to get more insight into customer behaviour it is useful to slice and dice the… Read more
In this blog post we show video that introduces PowerView with Excel 2013. You provide an overview of the tool and current limitations so you can make the right choice. PowerView is one of the best self-service BI tools that I have seen so far and will fill in gap… Read more
You can enforce referential integrity (ensure you don't get orphans) by adding Foreign Key Constraint and in this tutorial you can find a simple example explaining how to do that. This article has been created to support our SQL Tutorial and 70-461 Querying SQL Server 2012. Read more
In this blog psot we show how to restrict users from entering duplicated data by using SQL UNIQUE Constraint. In our examples we will use unique constraint on one field and we will use Email Address and one multiple fields and we will use First Name, Surname and Birth Date.… Read more
As part of my preparations for 70-462 Administering SQL Server 2012 today I have created a blog post covering "evaluate installation requirements" that is part of skills measures. New BI Edition will definitelly allow more companies get more out of SQL Server 2012 when it comes to BI but there… Read more
Some of you might be wondering why Diagram View is missing in some PowerPivot windows. This is related to Microsoft releasing two versions of PowerPivot in Excel 2010 and in this blog post you will find out when diagram view is not avialable and what to do to make available. Read more
This time we show how to use SQL DEFAULT CONSTRAINT to provide values for fields that are not given a value. This article supports our 70-461 Querying SQL Server 2012 and SQL Tutorial. Read more
We have now added SQL CHECK CONSTRAINT to Exam Guide 70-461 Querying SQL Server 2012 and SQL Tutorial Read more
In this tutorial we show how to use ALTER TABLE and add Primary key constraint. This tutorial support our Exam Guide 70-461 Querying SQL Server 2012 Read more
One of the PowerPivot advantages is flexibility of changing measure aggregation for instance changing average to minimum. PowerPivot applies default aggregation to a measure and usually it is SUM but in our case SUM does not make any sense so in this tutorial I will show how to change default… Read more
In this PowerPivot tutorial I show how to improve user experience by hiding fields from PivotTable (client tool) so user does not have to see fields which are worthless for end user. Read more
In previous lessons we create basic PowerPivot model now it is time to see how it looks in Excel 2013 PivotTable. For some reason Excel 2013 Preview seems to allow to create PivotTable only from PowerPivot but I hope extra button will be added to PowerPivot tab in Excel. Read more
We continue creating our PowerPivot model using Excel 2013 by adding relationships. We use two methods "manage relationships" dialog box and using Diagram View (that has been introduced in v2) Read more
In this tutorial we start creating PowerPivot model in Excel 2013 (very similar in 2010) by importing data from our SQL Server 2012 data warehouse. Read more
We have created a simple tutorial for SQL Create Table that may help some of you to prepare for Microsoft Certifications (98-364 and 70-461). Read more
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In this blog post I will share steps I have taken to set up PowerView using Excel 2013. Hopefully tomorrow I will publish another post with Video on how I use PowerView with Excel 2013. Read more
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