Get Data experience from Excel to Power BI and SQL Server Analysis Services 2017
(2018-Jan-20) It has been a long journey for the Excel data integration tool Power Query from its early version as...
2018-01-20
1,114 reads
Data Adventures
When it’s cold outside, perhaps Power BI heat maps can warm you up
(2018-Jan-13) You never know how the weather will behave itself, especially when the temperature gets dramatically changed from +10 to -10...
2018-01-23 (first published: 2018-01-13)
1,823 reads
Power BI Sankey Chart: a case to review your Budget books
(2017-Dec-29) Sankey diagram (chart), named after Matthew H Riall Sankey, is a good visualization tool for information flow within a system....
2017-12-29
3,200 reads
Lost in Big Data, perhaps Small Data could help
(2017-Nov-19) I don't remember how I actually found this book "Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends". Most...
2017-11-19
1,287 reads
Book from a library. Learning never stops for data professionals.
[2017-Oct-31] If you have never read the "Iacocca: An Autobiography" book by Lee Iacocca, I highly recommend it. I read it...
2017-10-31
614 reads
Macros in ER/Studio Data Architect is your data modeling lifebelt
[2017-Sep-01] There is a well-known phrase, "the rescue of a drowning man is the drowning man's own job" from one of the...
2017-09-01
1,848 reads
Data modeling in Power BI using XML file with Parent and Children nodes
[2017-Aug-08] Support for XML structured files as a data source has been available in Excel, then was introduced into the Power...
2017-08-08
12,742 reads
Calculating Travel Distance/Time in Power BI using Bing Map API
[2017-July-24] Map visualization in Power BI has drawn many data professionals into a field of ?reating visual data stories with...
2017-07-24
4,917 reads
Geo Location of Twitter messages in Power BI
[2017-June-25] There are several custom solutions that make Twitter messages analysis possible in Power BI. And with a recent addition of...
2017-07-05 (first published: 2017-06-25)
2,086 reads
Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking (Part 3: On or Off premises)
[2017-May-08] Listening to a car radio with many different talk shows available, it comes more often to my mind, that...
2017-05-08
666 reads
Blogs
The fundamental requirements of a reporting system
By ChrisJenkins
There are some fundamental boxes that your reporting system must tick. ✅ The figures...
Seeing the Bigger Picture: How A Monitoring Tool Changed My Approach to Estate Management
By Chris Yates
When it comes to managing complex database environments, having the right monitoring solution is...
A New Word: Foilsick
By Steve Jones
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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The Last Good DBCC Run
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count the number of NULLs in a row
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The Last Good DBCC Run
I want to check when DBCC CHECKDB was last run on my Baseball database. What code should I use?
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