Power BI Desktop is typically used to create reports that will eventually be published to Power BI Services where dashboards can be built. Robert Sheldon demonstrates how to publish reports from Power BI Desktop to the Power BI Service. Once published, the visualizations can be filtered, drilled into, or pinned to a dashboard.
2018-10-08
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In my T-SQL code I always use set based operations. I have been told these types of operations are what SQL Server is designed to process and it should be quicker than serial processing. I know cursors exist but I am not sure how to use them..
2018-10-08
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The name of the Agent job isn't necessarily what it does, and just because your'e not getting failure emails doesn't mean the job is working.
2018-10-05
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In this tip we look at how to insert missing values for an identity column using the SET IDENTITY_INSERT command.
2018-10-04
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Azure Storage can store many types of data, from NoSQL tables to VHDs. In this article, Supriya Pande explains how to work with Azure Storage Explorer, a tool that makes it easy to manage storage in Azure. She also provides an example of using the Azure Storage .NET SDK to upload files.
2018-10-04
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In this tip look at the undocumented command DBCC WRITEPAGE to corrupt a SQL Server database and then use the command to undo the corruption.
2018-10-03
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Join Anoop Kumar as he discusses two modern design patterns to handle Advanced Analytics on big data, and Real time analytics.
2018-10-02
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Since the GDPR has gone into effect, the focus has often been on databases. There are many other ways that personally identifiable data may be stored by an organization. In this article, David Poole shows how to use Bash and PowerShell to locate that data in file shares
2018-10-01
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In this tip we look at the undocumented command DBCC WRITEPAGE to corrupt a SQL Server database and then use the command to undo the corruption.
2018-10-01
2,109 reads
If someone says clustered indexes slow you down, they haven't read this.
2018-09-28
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By gbargsley
Recently, I was in a technical interview where the topic of running PowerShell at...
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I don’t recall where this came up (probably in SQLSlack), but I had a...
By Steve Jones
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A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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