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
718 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
1,118 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)
1,831 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
3,217 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
1,294 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
620 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
1,868 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
12,762 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
4,922 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)
2,087 reads
Blogs
Redgate and Rome
By Steve Jones
I’m at the UK Redgate office today, meeting with senior leaders in all areas...
Quick Tip: Check Most DTU Expensive Queries in Azure SQL Database
Optimizing Azure SQL Database performance often begins with identifying the most resource-intensive queries. Understanding...
PowerShell Newbie – Variables
By gbargsley
This is Week 2 of PowerShell Strikes Back – a four-week May series for...
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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