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)
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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
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers