Create a Date Dimension in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Most data warehouses and data marts require a date dimension or calendar table. Those of us that have been building...
2016-08-11 (first published: 2016-08-06)
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Data Savvy
PolyBase Is A Picky Eater – Remove Carriage Returns Before Ingesting Text
Update: As Gerhard points out in the comments, switching to ORC files solves this issue nicely. It’s not human readable,...
2016-08-09 (first published: 2016-08-01)
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Using Context To Traverse Hierarchies In DAX
My friend and coworker Melissa Coates (aka @sqlchick) messaged me the other day to see if I could help with a...
2016-07-28
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BimlScript – Get to Know Your Control Nuggets
This is post #2 of my BimlScript – Get to Know Your Code Nuggets series. To learn about text nuggets, see my...
2016-07-01
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BimlScript – Get to Know Your Code Nuggets
In BimlScript, we embed nuggets of C# or VB code into our Biml (XML) in order to replace variables and...
2016-06-30
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Colorblind Awareness and Power BI KPIs
Update: The ability to change the color of a KPI was delivered in August 2016!
Color blindness, or color vision deficiency (CVD)...
2016-04-23
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Trekking through the DAX Jungle In Search of Lost Customers
I like to think I’m proficient at writing DAX and building SSAS tabular models. I enjoy a good challenge and...
2016-03-01
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Creating a Matrix in Power BI With Multiple Values on Rows
This week I was asked to create a matrix in a Power BI report that looks like this:
Matrix with Values on...
2016-01-09
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Using a Variable to Populate the Query in a Lookup in SSIS
I encountered a situation on my last SSIS project in which I needed to be able to populate the query in lookup...
2015-12-29
796 reads
Type 6 or Hybrid Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension with Biml
In my previous post, I provided the design pattern and Biml for a pure Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD). When...
2015-12-27
593 reads
Blogs
Using a Local Large Language Model (LLM): Interacting with Local LLMs Using PowerShell
As AI continues to evolve, many of us are looking for ways to leverage...
Monday Monitor Tips: Finding the Hostname for Queries
By Steve Jones
I was chatting with a customer recently and they wanted to know which host...
Can AI Read Execution Plans?
Yeah, yeah, second AI post in a row. I promise not to make a...
Forums
SSIS Won't Create Log Entries
Hi everyone My SSIS package will not log to sysssislog. I am not sure...
SQL Server is terminating in response to a 'stop' request from Service error
Dear All, In one of the server its repeatedly restarting sqlserver services and not...
Question of the Day
Database Files on Shares I
I want to store database files on a file share for a SQL Server 2017 instance. Can I use \\fileserver\D$ as a location?
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