Tracking S&P 500 Using Power BI
S&P 500 index is an American stock market index consisting of 500 large companies and is considered to be the...
2015-08-17
2,667 reads
Samuel Vanga
Replace Blank Values to NULL in SSIS
Blank values are annoying, anywhere and everywhere. If your source system contains them, here’s how to convert blank values to NULL in...
2015-08-11
15,582 reads
Iterate Over Web Pages Using Power Query
Power Query makes it easy to pull data from a web page. As easy as deflating a football. Poof. Gone. However,...
2015-08-10 (first published: 2015-08-05)
3,908 reads
Baltimore Crime Report Using Power BI
As part of my quest for using data to find answers to everyday questions using Power BI – after analyzing baby names...
2015-08-06 (first published: 2015-07-27)
3,180 reads
Community Reactions to Power BI General Availability
Power BI is released to the public on Friday, 07/24. There’re both free and Pro versions. For full details about...
2015-08-03 (first published: 2015-07-26)
2,000 reads
Include File Name in Content Using Power Query
When importing data from a flat file using Power Query, you’d want to combine multiple files and include file name...
2015-07-28 (first published: 2015-07-21)
27,098 reads
Are People’s Food Habits Changing? A Power BI Analysis
A few years ago on road trips I’d happily grab whatever I can find to eat at service stations. That...
2015-07-14 (first published: 2015-07-07)
2,604 reads
Automating SSIS Design Pattern: Load Flat File Into Staging Table
Delimited flat files are commonly used to move data from one system to the other.
In this two part series published...
2015-07-14
778 reads
Automating SSIS Design Pattern - Stage Delimited Flat File
How long does it take to create to 100 staging packages? The answer will shock you!
2015-07-13
9,789 reads
I’m on WOxPod! Podcast
A few weeks ago, while at SQL Saturday Philadelphia, Chris Bell, SQL Server MVP and co-leader of PASS DC user group graciously...
2015-06-29
847 reads
Blogs
Why is shrinking IT budgets a good thing?
Each year around this time, companies enter the familiar ritual of budgeting. For many,...
Reverse Engineering a Physical Model Diagram
By Steve Jones
I recently wrote about a logical diagram with Redgate Data Modeler. That was interesting,...
Prepping for Certification, Part 3 of ?
By Brian Kelley
After I have understood the details for a certification test (part 1), including format...
Forums
Best analysis approach to reduce data type length in multiple tables
Hello SSC, I hope everyone is having a happy and safe holiday season! I...
Do you separate data/log files and TempDB files on different disks using AWS EC2
Hello, I am receiving multiple direction on deploying SQL Servers in AWS EC2. ...
Service account being in local admin in AWS EC2 environment?
Hello, I am working with a company on their database administration. I am trying...
Question of the Day
A New Operator
In SQL Server 2025, what does this code return?
SELECT '1' || '0'See possible answers