DAX Date Dimension and Fun with Date Math
I was working on a SSAS Tabular 2016 solution for a project for which I had no data (an empty...
2016-09-03
646 reads
Data Savvy
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)
2,448 reads
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)
2,140 reads
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
797 reads
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
466 reads
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
942 reads
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
588 reads
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
457 reads
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
1,300 reads
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
824 reads
Blogs
What is ALM in Fabric?
By HeyMo0sh
As someone who’s worked with data for over 20 years and with many cloud...
The Most Successful Startups in 2025 — And What They Have in Common
By HeyMo0sh
2025 belongs to the AI startups. If you peek into the tech headlines, you’ll...
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
Forums
A Quick Restore
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Guarding Against SQL Injection at the Database Layer (SQL Server)
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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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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