Create Azure DevOps Analytics Visuals with Power BI OData Queries
This article focuses on the use of OData Queries to integrate DevOps Analytics data to Power BI.
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Gitflow Workflow Feature Branching for SQL Database Projects
Learn how to use Gitflow workflow to meet the needs of developing new database related features and how to deploy these database changes.
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How to Batch Updates A Few Thousand Rows at a Time
In this post, Brent explains how to use a combination of two separate topics that he has blogged about recently.
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Multiple Regression Model Enhanced with Bagging
This article explains what bagging is relative to a basic decision tree model and demonstrates how to apply bagging for better multiple regression model fits to data from SQL Server.
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DAX financial functions: Depreciation calculations
Business Intelligence Architect, Analysis Services Maestro, and author Bill Pearson continues his series surrounding the DAX financial functions. In this article, he exposes four functions that are popular in the calculation of depreciation and amortization. Those accustomed to these functions within Excel will find the syntax, uses and operation of the functions familiar within the Power BI environment.
2021-01-19
Ten Reasons your SQL Server Monitoring will Scale
This article explains ten ways that SQL Monitor tackles the problem of scaling out the coverage of a single, lightweight monitoring system, and so allows your teams to maintain the health and performance of larger collections of databases and higher numbers of monitored SQL servers.
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SQL Server Monitoring for all Availability Groups
In this article we present a PowerShell script that can help you monitor all of your SQL Server Availability Groups in your environment.
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Azure Blob Storage Data Upload with SSIS
In this article we look at how to upload and download files from Azure Storage using SQL Server Integration Services.
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Using SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare within a PowerShell Cmdlet
SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used together, from the command line, to provide a complete build process, or to script out changes to both the database and its development data. For doing this routinely, I find it easiest to script the operation using PowerShell.
2021-01-15
Dynamic Power BI Slicer Using DAX Logic
Learn how to create dynamic data slicers in Power BI with this step by step example to show how this can be done.
2021-01-14
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Encoding NULL
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2025?
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