Power BI Meets Programmability – TOM, XMLA, and C#
For anyone who read the title of this and immediately thought, “Oh no, I can’t do C#! Since when do I need to be in app dev to do...
2021-10-15
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DataOnWheels
Power BI: Adding Columns to a Published Data Model using the XMLA Endpoint & TMSL
Goal of this demo: Update a Power BI model schema by adding a column to the data model without opening a PBIX file and ensure the scheduled refresh still...
2021-10-13 (first published: 2021-10-01)
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Power BI: Adding Columns to a Published Data Model using the XMLA Endpoint & TMSL
Goal of this demo: Update a Power BI model schema by adding a column to the data model without opening a PBIX file and ensure the scheduled refresh still...
2021-10-01
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Last Non-NULL Date in SQL Server
The simplest of requests are often the most difficult to execute. For example, a finance team needs to know every time a customer did not invoice for 90 days...
2021-09-06 (first published: 2021-08-11)
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Last Non-NULL Date in SQL Server
The simplest of requests are often the most difficult to execute. For example, a finance team needs to know every time a customer did not invoice for 90 days...
2021-08-11
4 reads
Connecting to Azure Blobs in Power BI
The step-by-step process below walks through connecting to data housed in Azure Blob Storage from Power BI using a SAS token. There are many ways to grab your data...
2021-08-11 (first published: 2021-07-26)
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Connecting to Azure Blobs in Power BI
The step-by-step process below walks through connecting to data housed in Azure Blob Storage from Power BI using a SAS token. There are many ways to grab your data...
2021-07-26
7 reads
Moving Synapse Databases Between Subscriptions – Practical Guidance
One of the tasks, we often do with migration projects is move large volumes of data. Depending on how you are configured, you may need to do the migration...
2021-06-16 (first published: 2021-06-01)
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Moving Synapse Databases Between Subscriptions – Practical Guidance
One of the tasks, we often do with migration projects is move large volumes of data. Depending on how you are configured, you may need to do the migration...
2021-06-01
6 reads
Power BI: Making Date & Time Keys
Saving the Day from Delay Part 2 Creating DateKey and TimeKey columns can be done with built in functions in the Power Query editor. Quick call out, if you...
2021-01-26 (first published: 2021-01-18)
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
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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