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Building Reports with Power BI vs Tableau from SQL Server Data
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2023-12-22
Sending resource alerts on Managed Instance using db_mail
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Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric
Source control is fundamental when dealing with projects and sharing code between multiple developers. Power BI present some challenges related to source control. But it’s finally providing us with a solution to these challenges. Let’s analyse this piece-by-piece.
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Running Azure CosmosDB queries from SQL Server using ODBC driver
Azure CosmosDB provides ODBC driver that enables you to query CosmosDB collections like classic databases. In this post you will see how to query CosmosDB collections from Sql Server using Transact-Sql.
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