Power BI – Hungry Median
Introduction Median is a useful statistical function, which first time appeared in SSAS 2016 and in Power BI around that year as well. There are several articles on how...
2020-11-24
SSAS Tabular – Process Add vs Partition Merge
Time keeps on running and as I promised in my last article I would like to compare the Process ADD vs Partition Merge technique. In the previous blog I...
2020-06-11 (first published: 2020-05-25)
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Azure Analysis Services – Processing Hot & Cold Data using Tabular model partitions
Introduction Recently have been working on a “Proof of Concept” task where I wanted to test the capabilities of Azure Analysis Services Tabular model when loading data from different...
2020-04-07 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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SSAS Tabular – Process Add memory consumption
For me it’s a bit surprising how little information can be found regarding the “Process Add” option which I consider as the best choice for incremental data load to...
2020-01-23
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Query Performance Tuning with Filtered Statistics
Introduction I recently got a call from our DBA telling me that the CPU usage is hitting 100% on the DB server and the ETL process runs for more...
2019-09-04 (first published: 2019-08-26)
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How to get Live Execution Plan using Extended Events
Introduction
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you were supposed to troubleshoot a long running expensive query that...
2019-03-06 (first published: 2019-02-19)
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Extended Events: Detect Implicit Conversions that affect execution plans
Implicit Conversions – Introduction
In this blog post, I’ll explain and demonstrate how to use Extended Events to detect Implicit Conversions that...
2019-01-24 (first published: 2019-01-15)
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Clustered Column Store Load Pitfalls – Magic number 64 when using WHERE IN clause
The Problem
During our workload we have recognized a difference in performance for queries using IN clause. We are building query...
2018-12-18
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Watch out – new Database Level Health Detection can send your AOAG down!
Background
In the past, Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) cluster only monitored the health of your entire Always On Availability Groups...
2018-11-20
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Failed Installation of SQL Server Cumulative Updates Debugged
Background
Our customer has recently experienced an issue during the installation of the latest cumulative updates in their SQL Server environment....
2018-11-05
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Power BI – Hungry Median
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Top 10 Must-Ask Questions Before Going to the Cloud
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Markdown Links– Remembering the Basics
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For some reason, I can never remember how to do markdown links. I know...
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