Power BI On Premises Integration with Reporting Services Preview
Since the Reporting Services product team announced last year that it was their intention to provide an on premises deployment...
2016-11-24 (first published: 2016-11-19)
2,139 reads
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SQL Server 2016 SP1 is Now Available
In the Business Intelligence and reporting space, SQL Server 2016 was a big step forward. Aside from significant relational engine...
2016-11-16
447 reads
Business Analytics Day Jan 11, 2017 Chicago
I hope you can join me at the Chicago Microsoft Technology Center for the PASS Business Analytics Day, on Wednesday,...
2016-11-14
428 reads
Happy Birthday Power BI
Today marks the first anniversary of Power BI Desktop and the Power BI Service. The effort to achieve this milestone...
2016-07-24
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SSRS 2016 Book Nearly Done… My Brain is now Jell-O
(first excerpt from the upcoming book) “Professional SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services and Mobile Reports” from Wrox Press is content...
2016-07-20
516 reads
What do you want to learn about SSRS 2016 at PASS Global Summit?
I’m thrilled to have been selected to deliver a session at the 2016 PASS Global Summit titled “Reporting Services 2016:...
2016-06-29 (first published: 2016-06-24)
1,127 reads
Using Power BI with Enterprise, On-premises Data
I just finished posting a 4-part series demonstrating how to use Power BI with on-premises data. The running time for...
2016-06-19
691 reads
Row-level Security Just Got Better: Passing Report Credentials to Analysis Services in SQL Server 2016
A new ground-breaking feature in SQL Server 2016 allows report user context to be passed through shared data sources, enabling...
2016-06-16 (first published: 2016-06-13)
1,486 reads
Where are SQL Server 2016 Client Tools?
So, you just installed SQL Server 2016 and you’re pretty sure you chose the options to install the client tools...
2016-05-27
4,851 reads
Power BI Application Embedding Releases Today
A few weeks ago, the Power BI team gave us the ability to freely embed Power BI reports, dashboards and...
2016-04-01
522 reads
Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers