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During the month of April, I will be delivering three full-day Power BI hands-On workshops. Each of these events will be the Friday preceding these SQL Saturday events. Seating is limited and many of these workshops tend to book-up. Follow the links to register. Huntington Beach, Orange County, CA; March… Read more
This is a different spin on the top three vendor rankings visualized in Power BI. According to the placement of the chart elements in the “Visionary/Leader” quadrant, Microsoft leads Tableau by a little over 36% in the “Vision Completeness “ score and Tableau beat out Microsoft on the “Ability to… Read more
This page is a table of contents for for several new and forthcoming posts. I’m posting a series of excerpts for my Wrox Press book: Professional SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services and Mobile Reports. Each of the posts is a condensed version of the material covered in a corresponding chapter… Read more
This just in from the Reporting Services product team: “Power BI reports in SQL Server Reporting Services: January 2017 Technical Preview now available” This feature addition will allow Power BI reports to be published to a local SQL Server Reporting Services server, entirely-on-premises without using the Power BI cloud service.… Read more
NEWS FLASH: Power BI reports can be deployed to SQL Server Reporting Services web portal. The production-ready release is targeted for mid 2017. This is much sooner than most folks in the community were anticipating. An installable technical preview is targeted for January of 2017. This announcement was just made… Read more
As I visit businesses, consulting clients and training classes, to teach data reporting and analytics; there is a recurring conversation. It is one that I have had for eighteen years. The audiences change and the technology implementations are a little different over time, but the essential conversation is still the… Read more
I recently needed to replicate all of the reports on one report server to a different server. I started downloading each report one at a time to a file system folder, moving them to the other machine and then uploading each RDL file. Needless to say, that’s a slow and… Read more
Since the Reporting Services product team announced last year that it was their intention to provide an on premises deployment option for Power BI reports, there has been tremendous interest. Despite their determination to provide clarity around their efforts , there has still been some speculation about how and when… Read more
In the Business Intelligence and reporting space, SQL Server 2016 was a big step forward. Aside from significant relational engine improvements, Analysis Services Tabular matured considerably. Components of Reporting Services were completely re-architected and several new features were added, which include modern HTML5 rendering for all browsers, the new web… Read more
I hope you can join me at the Chicago Microsoft Technology Center for the PASS Business Analytics Day, on Wednesday, January 11, 2017. The focus of this hands-on workshop is building business solutions with Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service. We will cover both self-service and enterprise scenarios,… Read more
Today marks the first anniversary of Power BI Desktop and the Power BI Service. The effort to achieve this milestone and the on-going commitment of the teams responsible for this product is nothing short of phenomenal. Earlier this week, I reached out to a few friends to join me in… Read more
(first excerpt from the upcoming book) “Professional SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services and Mobile Reports” from Wrox Press is content complete! The book is well into the editing stage– still, another grueling phase of the publishing process, but there is light at the end of the proverbial tunnel. What is… Read more
I’m thrilled to have been selected to deliver a session at the 2016 PASS Global Summit titled “Reporting Services 2016: The Force Awakens”. I’ve been speaking at SQL Saturdays and have done some training on SSRS 2016 this year but this new session has yet to be finished SO…. please… Read more
I just finished posting a 4-part series demonstrating how to use Power BI with on-premises data. The running time for all four parts is about 44 minutes. I cover using the Power BI Enterprise Gateway to connect published Power BI reports to on-premises data sources: SQL Server database connected with… Read more
A new ground-breaking feature in SQL Server 2016 allows report user context to be passed through shared data sources, enabling role-based, row-level security. This feature doesn’t require complex administration configurations, service principal delegation, Kerberos, Claims/Windows Token conversion or impersonation. You may not be as excited as I am about this… Read more
So, you just installed SQL Server 2016 and you’re pretty sure you chose the options to install the client tools and all the components you needed. You look for SSMS and, what the heck? it’s not there. OMG, what have they done?! SSMS is Gone! Seriously, SQL Server Management Studio… Read more
A few weeks ago, the Power BI team gave us the ability to freely embed Power BI reports, dashboards and other capabilities into a web frame for all the world to see. The next natural step, you might think, would be a way to to securely embed selected Power BI… Read more
Color coordination is important in report and dashboard design. We’ve seen theming and color pallet options in the prior iteration of Power BI but this is not yet a feature in the new version. No doubt, the product will continue to move forward and we’re likely to see some kind… Read more
This is a reminder to compete the annual Business Intelligence product survey conducted by BARC Research. I’ve been participating in the survey for several years (as far as I know, as long as it has been running). As a participant, I receive a detailed copy of the results which are… Read more
I’m working on a series of articles about creating enterprise solutions with Power BI and the first article was published this past week in SQL Server Pro Magazine. I will republish the completed series but until then, I’ll post short excerpts from each article. In future posts, I’ll show examples… Read more
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