Migrate SSRS 2017 to Power BI Report Server

UPDATE: The blog post doesn’t make this exactly clear, but fiddling around with the report database to get the upgrade...

Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 93 – Mapbox Visual)

In this module you will learn how to use the Mapbox Visual. The Mapbox Visual allows you to visualize geographical...

Validating SMO security bugs with Pester

SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) are the .NET classes underpinning Management Studio and all good PowerShell that interfaces with SQL...

# Not the GDPR News

# Not the GDPR News

Mark Williams and myself will delivering a seminar called #Not the GDPR news in Cardiff on the...

“The report server Web Portal URLs and Web Service URLs don’t match”

A client recently upgraded a server, and then started receiving this error when they tried to access the SSRS Reports...

Adding a Downloadable Calendar Event File to WordPress without a Plugin

Let’s say you’ll be doing an event soon — say a Facebook Live event– and you want to create a calendar reminder for folks to download. Lots of us...

Book Review: SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services With R

Disclaimer: I’m one of the Technical Reviewers for this book.
With the rising demand for cloud computing and wide adaptation of...

GDPR – After the restore

I joined in on an interesting conversation the other day on twitter. It was about some unusual ramifications of GDPR...

Simply Debugging

Debugging is a life skill. Yes, the term comes from IT (literally removing a bug from a computer believe it...

SQL Saturday Iceland–What an Adventure!

Two Saturdays ago, I was in Reykjavik, Iceland, speaking at my very first international SQL Saturday.  WOW!  Is all I...