I’m excited to be speaking at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference this year, which takes place March 31 through April 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. I will be co-presenting...
2025-03-05 (first published: 2025-02-20)
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I have a few clients that incrementally load tables from a SQL Server source into their data warehouse or lakehouse by using change tracking. Lately, they encountered some issues...
2025-02-10 (first published: 2025-01-31)
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With the PBIR format of Power BI reports, it’s much easier to make report updates outside of Power BI Desktop. One thing you may want to do is to...
2025-01-08 (first published: 2024-12-30)
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Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or maybe you need an easy way to find broken field references in a report? Certain...
2024-12-09 (first published: 2024-11-27)
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I presented at SQL Saturday Pittshburgh this past weekend about populating your data warehouse with a metadata-driven, pattern-based approach. One of the benefits I mentioned is that it’s easy...
2024-10-28 (first published: 2024-10-14)
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A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had...
2024-10-21 (first published: 2024-09-30)
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I had a couple of clients who were moving content from development catalogs to production catalogs for the first time. They wanted to copy the schema and data from...
2024-09-25
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One of the new features in the August Power BI Desktop release is the updated legends that are styled to more accurately reflect the per-series formatting on the visual....
2024-09-16 (first published: 2024-08-26)
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External REST endpoint invocation in Azure SQL DB went GA in August 2023. Whereas before, we might have needed an intermediate technology to make a REST call to an...
2024-07-29 (first published: 2024-07-23)
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Power BI reports have a theme that specifies the default colors, fonts, and visual styles. In Power BI Desktop, you can choose to use a built-in theme, start with...
2024-07-08 (first published: 2024-06-21)
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By Steve Jones
I was asked about state-based deployments in Flyway Teams, so I decided to show...
By Steve Jones
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. – from...
When Covid took out the PASS organization, I had someone say to me, “Well,...
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What do these two selects return?
SELECT BIT_COUNT (CAST (-1 as smallint))
, BIT_COUNT (CAST (-1 as bigint))
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