Power BI Pulse Chart vs. Dancing bars in Excel
[2016-Jun-30] Recently Microsoft Power BI has been enhanced with a new Pulse Chart custom visualization (Visual Awesomeness Unlocked: Pulse Chart) which...
2016-06-30
2,555 reads
Rayis Imayev
- Website: http://datanrg.blogspot.com/
Analyzing David and Goliath datasets on a same chart; Dual Axis in Excel, Power BI and SSRS
[2016-May-31] Two different metrics, two different datasets, one may represent a very high value and the other one is very low....
2016-05-31
1,688 reads
Power BI Box and Whisker visualization vs. Box Plot chart in SSRS
[2016-Apr-30] I don't work with box plot charts very often, however when I do then it becomes a very interesting experience. First,...
2016-04-30
4,355 reads
Excel Power Map vs. Power BI Globe Map visualization
[2016-02-02] PowerMap in Excel is a great tool with good design and comprehensive user experience. I’ve started using it about...
2016-02-09 (first published: 2016-02-02)
5,859 reads
Specifying Paths to External Items (Report Builder and SSRS) in SharePoint with PowerShell
[2015-Dec-24] My story: two SSRS items (main report and its sub-report) need to be deployed to SharePoint. Trivial task, and...
2015-12-24
1,774 reads
PowerMap with Custom Region shapefiles - Demystified
[2015-Nov-18] Today is a global GIS Day (http://www.gisday.com/) where people across the globe celebrate and promote the use of various geo...
2015-11-25 (first published: 2015-11-18)
10,602 reads
Too Big To Be Visible - SQL Server vs. Oracle data in SSRS reporting
[2015-Oct-20] A sourcing system failed to return correct results (returned value was a very high figure with double digit number...
2015-10-26 (first published: 2015-10-20)
2,272 reads
Why I still like Excel PowerPivot models in SharePoint however Tabular solutions in SSAS are better
[2015-Aug-12] It’s quite obvious that in present time there is a growing audience for all the latest changes and updates...
2015-08-12
1,294 reads
Single value filters and custom error messages in Power BI
"Let me be the one for you, otherwise we need to work on communication". Basically this was a very brief...
2015-07-27
1,123 reads
Setting specific colors for PowerView charts
I was listening for Phil Collins' "True Colors" song in my car audio this morning and it reminded me about...
2015-07-21
5,383 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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