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Patrick LeBlanc
Implementing Tabular Data Models: Microsoft Virtual Academy
Implementing Tabular Data Models
Date: November 11, 2014
Time: 9am?5pm PST
Where: Live, online virtual classroom:
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Parameterizing an Excel Spreadsheet
I’ve had a few discussions in the past week about not only including Excel spreadsheets on PerformancePoint dashboards, but specifically...
2013-05-16
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The Tale of One Tabular Model and Excel 2013 with Multiple Power View Reports
SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services introduced Power View, which was initially available only in SharePoint. This limited the use of...
2013-05-16 (first published: 2013-05-13)
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SSRS 101 – Your First Report
I know that it has been a while, and I apologize. I have been traveling around the U.S. evangelizing SQL...
2013-05-06
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Configuring PerformancePoint in SharePoint 2013
Last week while assisting a customer configure SharePoint BI I ran into an interesting problem when configuring PerformancePoint. After following...
2013-04-29
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Creating a Shared Dataset with Report Builder
I was recently asked by a customer if you could build a Shared Dataset using Report Builder 3.0. More specifically,...
2013-04-29
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SQL Lunch – GeoFlow: 3D Geospatial Visualization
Join me next month to learn about a new Geospatial visualization feature of Excel 2013 on the SQL Lunch.
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2013-04-25
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers