Updating PowerPivot model and PowerView report with PowerShell
Before I start describing a problem that my PowerShell script helps to resolve, these are a few blog posts of...
2015-06-18
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Data Adventures
Powershell for SSRS in SharePoint: Multiple data sources and shared datasets
I thought that I would leave any further attempts to improve my Powershell script that was used to deploy SSRS...
2015-05-14
3,836 reads
Big Data Hackathon in Microsoft Canada: Power Map will find your way!
Big Data, what a term! Some people instantly think of a huge sometimes cumbersome volume of information, others define it...
2015-04-10
1,636 reads
SSRS report footer is NOT lost in Excel
With all the recent changes and updates within the Microsoft PowerBI universe, SSRS core technology gets less and less attention....
2015-04-07 (first published: 2015-03-31)
14,121 reads
PowerPivot Saga 2: DAX OR function (OR there is something better)
I didn't realize that the DAX OR function only accepts 2 arguments compared with the similar function in Excel where a limit of...
2014-12-24
12,949 reads
PowerPivot Saga: Scheduled Refresh more than once a day
PowerPivot data models in Excel is a great way to quickly pull data from various sources, build relationship between different...
2014-11-03
2,471 reads
SSRS report rendered in EXCELOPENXML then something went missing
Recently I had been requested by a client to look into one of their SSRS reports issues. They had one...
2014-10-16
3,160 reads
SSIS Pivot makes you stronger
At the recent Toronto SQL Server User group meeting Michal J Swart (@MJSwart) gave a good presentation based on 10...
2014-10-15
900 reads
SSRS report: Multi-value parameter going after Data-driven subscription
It is always good to enrich SSRS reports with multi-value parameters; users have more flexibility to combine different reporting scenario...
2014-09-03 (first published: 2014-08-27)
27,877 reads
Power View report migration from SharePoint 2010 to 2013
With the latest changes to the Microsoft Power BI and ability to create Power View reports within an Excel file...
2014-07-31 (first published: 2014-07-24)
8,224 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
By James Serra
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers