Power BI with Azure Data Lake - where the water doesn't run dry
(2018-Feb-04) I've had a case working with very large data files as a source for my heat map visualizations in...
2018-02-04
722 reads
Data Adventures
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
1,126 reads
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)
1,842 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
3,229 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
1,299 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
627 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
1,896 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
12,781 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
4,928 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)
2,089 reads
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PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
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The Costs of Multiple Platforms
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers