Is Self-service BI Threatening IT Professionals’ Livelihoods?
(this is another follow-up to Chris Webb’s post on “Why Corporate BI and Self-Service BI Are Both Necessary”) There is...
2012-12-09
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Debugging Parameter Dependencies in Reporting Services
Creating a report with two datasets that reference the same pair of parameters, I’m seeing the following error: The Value...
2012-12-07
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Power View and Reporting Services
There has been an active discussion thread on Chris Webb’s blog about the similarities & differences between various Microsoft BI & reporting...
2012-12-03
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Is PowerPivot the Next Access?
I’m impressed with the current generation of semantic modeling technology from Microsoft. I’ve had the opportunity to use both PowerPivot...
2012-10-31 (first published: 2012-10-28)
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Office 2013 BI and Mobility
I had a really good experience presenting a session at the SQL Saturday BI Edition in Dallas this weekend about...
2012-10-15
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The State of Microsoft Self-Service Reporting
(article published on the MVP Award Program Blog) I really enjoy this topic. One of the reasons, I suppose, it’s...
2012-09-27 (first published: 2012-09-25)
2,749 reads
2012 Fall & Winter Conference Sessions
Fall is a busy time for speaking engagements which include user groups, SQL Saturdays and the PASS Global Summit. I'm...
2012-09-22
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SQL Server BI & SharePoint eBooks, Guides and Resources
There are many free eBooks & resources available from Microsoft and members of the MVP community. This is a collection of...
2012-08-10
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PASS 2012 Summit: November 6-9
I just received an email message from the PASS Global Summit 2012 organizers after submitting session abstracts a few weeks...
2012-06-10
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SSRS Performance in SharePoint Integrated Mode
I’m working with a client to help them move all reports in their company from native mode (Reporting Services not...
2012-05-29 (first published: 2012-05-24)
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Creating a Simple and Flexible...
SQL Art, Part 3: Happy Easter Fun in SSMS
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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