I have a client who was upgrading some servers from pre-2022 versions of SQL Server to SQL Server 2022 CU7. They had some multidimensional SSAS cubes that were to...
2023-09-13 (first published: 2023-08-18)
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This week, I was working with a client who requested I use the Segoe UI font in their Power BI report. The report contained a mix of core visuals...
2023-09-06 (first published: 2023-08-17)
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If you are using Power BI to connect to a PaaS resource on a virtual network in Azure (including private endpoints), you need a data gateway. While you can...
2023-08-21 (first published: 2023-08-01)
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I recently created a treemap in Power BI for a Workout Wednesday challenge. Originally, I had set out to make a different treemap, but I ran into some limitations...
2023-08-07 (first published: 2023-07-14)
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One of the nice things about the Microsoft Connector for Oracle is that it doesn’t require installation of an Oracle client. But because of this, you may not have...
2023-06-21 (first published: 2023-06-03)
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The April 2023 release of Power BI desktop introduced a new preview feature called dynamic format strings for measures. This allows us to return values with different formats from...
2023-05-01 (first published: 2023-04-21)
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Did you know that you can change the browser used by SQL Server Management Studio to authenticate using Azure Active Directory to a SQL database in Azure? I had...
2023-04-12 (first published: 2023-03-28)
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In February 2023, Microsoft released some new Power BI themes that are more accessible than the other themes available by default. The blog post mentions the prevalence of color...
2023-02-25 (first published: 2023-02-24)
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I had to do this for a client the other day, and I realized I hadn’t blogged about it. Let’s say you need to include data in a Power...
2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-01-24)
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In early 2022, Microsoft released a new activity in Azure Data Factory (ADF) called the Script activity. The Script activity allows you to execute one or more SQL statements...
2023-01-09 (first published: 2022-12-22)
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