How to Slice Data by Fiscal Month using DAX for Power BI Reports
In this article, learn how to set the current fiscal month identity in a calendar table using DAX for Power BI when dealing with fiscal periods.
2024-09-02
Additional Articles
Is it still worth it to sponsor PASS Summit?
Conference planning is underway. Several folks have asked me whether I think the PASS conference is still worth exhibiting. I thought an article would be best to break down my thoughts. I’m in an interesting position, being a marketing leader who also specializes in SQL Server and doesn’t work for Microsoft. I’ve worked directly for several companies in the ecosystem, so I know how difficult reaching the DBA market has been post-pandemic.
2024-08-30
Microsoft Fabric: Using Lakehouse data in Real Time Dashboards
Real-Time dashboards are a great feature in Real Time Intelligence experience to monitor our data. However, by default ...
2024-08-30
Is your DevOps strategy missing a vital link?
Database DevOps practices can help you ship features faster, but how do you safely enable this, and ensure those updates will successfully deploy? Redgate Test Data Manager was developed to resolve bottlenecks and challenges, helping organizations ship deployments they can trust by enabling developers and testers to self-serve test data that walks and talks like production with sensitive customer data taken care of. Read more on the blog.
2024-08-28
Microsoft Fabric Warehouse Security: Object-Level, Column-Level and Row-Level
Learn about object-level, column-level, and row-level security in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse and how this can be implemented to limit access to data.
2024-08-28
Days of the Week, Bitwise Edition
I recently had to help support synchronization and distribution of workloads between multiple servers.
2024-08-26
SQL Local Variables and Performance Issues
In this article, we examine the effect of local variables on T-SQL queries and how these could potentially cause performance issues.
2024-08-23
Auditing SQL Server – Part 3 – SQL Server Configuration Audit
This section gets into detailed SQL Server configuration details. This is less relevant in a cloud environment, but there are still items to confirm.
2024-08-21
Reduce SQL Server Blocking with READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT
This article explores how enabling READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT on your SQL Server database might ease excessive blocking.
2024-08-19
10 tips for Test Data Management success
What are the challenges to implementing a successful test data management strategy? In our recent webinar ‘Harnessing the Power of Test Data Management: Strategies for Success’, Redgate’s Steve Jones was joined by Hamish Watson (DevOps Consultant) and Daniel Watkins (Director/Principal Consultant) to talk all things TDM and how to implement it efficiently and effectively. Here are 10 key tips and takeaways from their conversation in a short blog post.
2024-08-16
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