Introduction In my last blog post, I have addressed an issue with DAX Median function consuming a lot of memory. To refresh the result, below is the performance summary...
2020-12-10 (first published: 2020-12-01)
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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...
2020-12-08 (first published: 2020-11-24)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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By Steve Jones
Today’s coping tip is to stop for a minute when you walk outside and...
One of the reasons you may be considering encryption is due to the relevant...
There are multiple ways organizations can engage with a data (DBA/analytics/data architect/ML/etc.) consultant. The...
We were getting constant blocking on the db server. However, after stopping the process...
Hi, I have a table containing some columns and some simple data. I want...
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