DAX Logic and Blanks
A while back I was chatting with Shannon Lindsay on Twitter. She shares lots of useful Power BI tips there. She shared her syntax tip of the & operator...
2020-11-03 (first published: 2020-10-29)
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Meagan Longoria
- Website: http://DataSavvy.me
Stop Letting Accessibility Be Optional In Your Power BI Reports
We don’t talk about inclusive design nearly enough in the Power BI community. I was trying to recall the last time I saw a demo report (from Microsoft or...
2020-09-24 (first published: 2020-09-17)
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Downloading a CSV File from an API Using Azure Data Factory
In this article, learn how to use Azure Data Factory with a REST API to download files.
2020-09-07
15,514 reads
Fun with Power BI and Color Math
I recently published my color contrast report in the Power BI Data Stories Gallery. It allows you to enter two hex color values and then see the color contrast...
2020-09-01 (first published: 2020-08-20)
421 reads
I’m Speaking at Virtual PASS Summit 2020
PASS Summit has gone virtual this year, but that isn’t keeping PASS from delivering a good lineup of speakers and activities. I’m excited to be presenting a pre-con and...
2020-08-06
40 reads
Refreshing a Power BI Dataset in Azure Data Factory
I recently needed to ensure that a Power BI imported dataset would be refreshed after populating data in my data mart. I was already using Azure Data Factory to...
2020-07-21 (first published: 2020-07-09)
428 reads
Data Visualization, Context, and Domain Expertise
I recently posted a graph to twitter and asked people to explain it. Let’s look at the graph. The graph is from Fitbit. It shows the number of steps...
2020-06-18 (first published: 2020-06-04)
434 reads
Power BI Data Viz Makeover: From Drab to Fab
On July 11 at 3pm MDT, Rob Farley and I will be hosting a webinar on report design in Power BI. We will take a report that does not...
2020-06-18
18 reads
An Updated Version of the Power BI Enterprise Deployment Whitepaper is Available
A new version of the Microsoft whitepaper “Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment” is now available. Once again, Melissa Coates (b|t) and Chris Webb (b|t) are the authors. I...
2020-06-16 (first published: 2020-05-28)
316 reads
Using Logic Apps in a Data Factory Execution Framework – Part 1
Data Factory allows parameterization in many parts of our solutions. We can parameterize things such as connection information in linked services as well as blob storage containers and files...
2020-05-22 (first published: 2020-05-07)
568 reads
Blogs
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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The Empty Aggregate
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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