Business Intelligence Roles and Team Composition
On Business Intelligence projects of all sizes, the composition of the team is a crucial element for success. What is...
2014-06-17
467 reads
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SSAS Performance Logger Now Available
I’ve created a simple query performance logging tool for Analysis Services, called the SSAS Performance Logger. The tool allows you...
2014-06-03
478 reads
What Does it Cost to Implement a Business Intelligence Project?
Someone recently asked me through LinkedIn how much it would cost to implement a BI project with Microsoft tools. This...
2014-05-17
984 reads
What’s Happening at the PASS Business Analytics Conference?
Watch below for live updates during the conference Stay tuned and you’ll find out what’s going on during this week...
2014-05-07
450 reads
Creating a Dynamic, Parameterized Measure in DAX
As I continue to explore the many facets of DAX functions, I’m finding more creative ways to add business value...
2014-04-20
887 reads
Images, charts, indicators and sparklines in a tablix stretch and degrade report performance
This fact is probably not documented very well but this is an important factor in SSRS visual report design… The...
2013-09-26
736 reads
Images, charts, indicators and sparklines in a tablix stretch and degrade report performance
This fact is probably not documented very well but this is an important factor in SSRS visual report design… The...
2013-09-26
368 reads
Showing a 100% Progress Gauge in Power View
What I’m going to show you is not rocket science. This one gets filed under the category of “well, duh. ...
2013-08-01
795 reads
DAX: Returning the Nth Selected Value in a Slicer
A client came to me with a challenge this week that, although simple in concept, posed an interesting challenge that...
2013-07-13
746 reads
We’ve Got The Power: “Power BI”, New Microsoft BI Suite Announced
Power BI: a new suite of Business Intelligence tools Over the past few months, teams at Microsoft have made several...
2013-07-09
723 reads
Blogs
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...
Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....
Forums
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...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
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