Using Power BI with HDInsight Part 2: Power BI Desktop and Hive
With the rise of HDInsight and other Hadoop based tools, it is valuable to understand how Power BI can help...
2015-08-28
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Blog Posts
Brentozar’s Training: Chocolate & Cowboy Hats Included
It was entertaining to listen to a technical wizard fighting the obsession with waiting to eat chocolate with 3k viewers...
2015-08-27
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Brentozar's Training: Chocolate & Cowboy Hats Included
It was entertaining to listen to a technical wizard fighting the obsession with waiting to eat chocolate with 3k viewers...
2015-08-27
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Does SQLSaturday Increase Chapter Attendance?
One of the big goals for SQLSaturday was for it to be a membership drive. It’s worked hugely well in...
2015-08-27
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Entity Sync Relationship - Master Data Services 2016
Entity Sync Relationship is a new feature in Master Data Services 2016. It enables you to share entity data between different models. You can keep a single version of...
2015-08-27
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Entity Sync Relationship - Master Data Services 2016
Entity Sync Relationship is a new feature in Master Data Services 2016. It enables you to share entity data between...
2015-08-27
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Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Simple Visualization
This is the third installment of our Getting Started With Power BI Desktop series. The first post is about installation...
2015-08-27
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I am not a “wogrammer”
So apparently the COO of Facebook is trying to make the word “wogrammer” – a woman programmer – a thing. (Thanks to...
2015-08-27
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Live Query Statistics
The objective of this post is to introduce the new feature in SQL Server 2016 called Live Query Statistics. This option...
2015-08-27 (first published: 2015-08-19)
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Reblog: Force installation of 64-bit ACE OLE DB provider
Anyone working with SSIS and Excel probably had the following issue: you are creating an SSIS package using an Excel...
2015-08-27
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
Car Update September 2026
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Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
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Checking the Error Log II
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