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
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Data Adventures
DAX calculations with hierarchies: Set the order straight.
[2017-Apr-30] If you have ever tried to create calculated measures in SSAS Tabular/ Power BI models where different levels of...
2017-05-10 (first published: 2017-04-30)
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SSIS Web Service Task: misleading role of WSDL file
[2017-Mar-31] You can call one of your web service methods in SSIS package using a .NET script task or you can just...
2017-03-31
3,521 reads
External SQL files vs. Stored procedures in SSIS development
[2017-Feb-21] I'm creating this particular blog post more for myself to remember and use it as a reference to related discussions...
2017-02-23 (first published: 2017-02-21)
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How to compare two SSAS databases with a custom MDX query
[2017-Jan-29] It came as a request from one of my customers where I had worked as a consultant to quickly compare...
2017-01-29
2,771 reads
Open Data is like a soup
[2016-Nov-04] Open data is like a soup, some people like it hot (or made with all the latest updates); some people...
2016-11-04
617 reads
Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking (Part 2: Predicting the Future)
[2016-Oct-18] I read a book one time about the importance of using visual aids in teaching. They also used a well...
2016-10-28 (first published: 2016-10-18)
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Historical Reports vs. Predictive analytics: Rear view mirror look vs. Forward-looking view. Really?
[2016-Sep-30] Working with reports based on historical data is like driving a car while looking in the rear view mirror. I heard...
2016-09-30
1,582 reads
Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking?
[2016-Aug-31] Someone said a picture is worth a thousand words and this is true that in most cases a visual representation...
2016-08-31
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Power BI: If you have a Cloud of Words, let them Fly!
[2016-July-31] Last week was my 2nd time participating at the local Toronto Open Data meetup (https://www.meetup.com/opentoronto/). The audience of this meetup...
2016-08-02 (first published: 2016-07-31)
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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