SQL PASS Summit 2011 Recap
This week has been an exciting and memorable week for me. The last PASS Summit I attended was in 2009...
2011-10-14
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PerformancePoint – Using SSAS Actions
The latest project I worked on had a heavy dose of PerformancePoint and one of the requirements was to launch...
2011-09-23
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SSRS – Dealing with truncating spaces
I apologize ahead of time on this post today because it will require lots of pre explanation and screenshots to...
2011-09-22
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PASS Pre Con - Building a Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform
PASS Summit is quickly approaching and while many of you are registering I wanted to remind you of some of...
2011-09-07
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SSIS - Inferred Member Insert in Fact Table Load
Recently while working on a different solution for loading inferred member solution in our fact table load I ran into...
2011-08-16
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PowerPivot – Commonly Used DAX Expressions
Today I will be presenting in a webinar, which by the way is recorded for later viewing, on Commonly used...
2011-08-11
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PowerPivot – Creating KPIs
Probably one of the most anticipated additions to the latest version of PowerPivot is the ability to create KPIs. PowerPivot...
2011-08-08
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PowerPivot – Perspectives
PowerPivot – Perspectives
Many times when developing larger Analysis Services cubes you may find it necessary to use Perspectives to logically split...
2011-08-05
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PowerPivot – Creating Hierarchies
Hierarchies are one of the long awaited features that will now be available in the latest version of PowerPivot. Hierarchies...
2011-07-31
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Modified Insert Unknown Row to Dimension Table
A little over a year ago Patrick LeBlanc wrote a blog post about inserting an unknown row into a dimension. ...
2011-07-29
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Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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