Comparing an Old Running Total to Window Functions
Often I see running totals that are written in SQL using a variety of techniques. Many pieces of code were written in pre-2012 techniques, prior to window functions being...
2024-09-30
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Blog Posts
Making Legend Order Match Segment Order in a Power BI Stacked Column Chart
A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had...
2024-09-30
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Making Legend Order Match Segment Order in a Power BI Stacked Column Chart
A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had...
2024-09-30
5 reads
Making Legend Order Match Segment Order in a Power BI Stacked Column Chart
A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had...
2024-09-30
7 reads
Monday Monitor Tip: Compliance Checking for Old Versions
A customer recently wanted to know if any of their instances were too old and out of support. This was for a compliance purpose, and they had the need...
2024-09-30
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Monday Monitor Tip: Compliance Checking for Old Versions
A customer recently wanted to know if any of their instances were too old and out of support. This was for a compliance purpose, and they had the need...
2024-09-30
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Monday Monitor Tips–Finding CUs for My Instance
How can I quickly get a CU patch for a system that’s out of date? I’ll discuss that situation. You might think you get to patch every instance every...
2024-09-30 (first published: 2024-09-16)
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Why CFOs Can’t Afford to Delay BI Adoption
The post Why CFOs Can’t Afford to Delay BI Adoption appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2024-09-30 (first published: 2024-09-16)
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A New Word: the McFly effect
the McFly Effect – n. the phenomenon of observing your parents interact with people they grew up with, which reboots their personalities into youth mode, offering you a glimpse...
2024-09-27
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Connect to Power BI as a Guest User in another Tenant
Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added as a guest user in another tenant. This happens quite a lot when you’re a...
2024-09-27 (first published: 2024-09-19)
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Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
ROLLUP to calculate Month total for all Categories
Good Afternoon, I have built a table with four columns: Period(Month), Category, Numerator, Denominator....
Level 28: DAX Text Functions: The DAX Extract & Modify Functions: LEFT(), RIGHT(), MID(), REPLACE(), SUBSTITUTE()
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Level 28: DAX Text Functions:...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers