Introduction Developing predefined reports in addition to all the ad-hoc queries have been a part of my daily activities. Often I find my stakeholders asking me to prepare reports in which they want to know something that has never happened. It might sound strange, but yeah, that's what their point of concern is all about. […]
2021-11-26 (first published: 2019-11-04)
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Introduction This article will help you install the Docker Desktop for Mac. Before we show that, let us start by understanding what the Docker Desktop software can do for you. To understand Docker, we need to understand what a container is. If you remember a few years ago, the only way of deploying application code […]
2021-04-20
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This article is focused on beginners who have already started writing SQL queries and are now diving deep towards more data processing and complex queries in SQL. When we talk about data processing, an important concept that comes to our mind is performing ETL workloads to a data warehouse. ETL is a very complex topic […]
2021-01-26
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This article explains how to get started with PostgreSQL on AWS.
2020-12-15
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This article covers how to install PostgreSQL on the macOS.
2020-11-19
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Learn how you can fix the duplicated key error in SSAS without editing the source data.
2020-05-05
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Introduction In this article, I'll explain the use of the RANKX function available in DAX. The RANKX is a sortation function which is capable of performing a quite complex sorting and ranking based on the groups and values available in the dataset. It returns the ranking of a particular number available in each row of […]
2020-03-12
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This article explains a way to use labels (last year, YTD, etc.) for report parameters.
2020-03-05
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2020-02-27
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When the database design is not great, you may have to write some creative queries to get what you need.
2020-02-17
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