Tallahassee User Group meeting August 9th
For those of you in the Tallahassee, FL area on August 9th at 6:00 pm I will be speaking virtually for...
2011-07-21
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Devin Knight
PowerPivot - Diagram View
The new “Denali” PowerPivot has a lot of fanatic new additions that I’ve really been looking forward to.Many of my...
2011-07-21
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PowerPivot - Measure Grid
There are a lot of fantastic new features in the latest CTP 3 release of PowerPivot, which you can download...
2011-07-20
2,512 reads
SQL Server Denali Installation Change
Tonight I took my first crack at getting SQL Server Denali up and running on my machine.From what I had...
2011-07-20
1,415 reads
SQL PASS 2011 Session and Pre Con
Yesterday I was thrilled to find out that my session "Common Analysis Services Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them"...
2011-06-16
690 reads
SSAS - Understanding KeyColumns Dimension Property
For many Analysis Services developers building dimensions with many attributes and hierarchies is something that comes as second nature to...
2011-06-13
5,891 reads
Data Mining in Excel Presentation
Wednesday I will be presenting for the PASS BI/DW group a session on Data Mining in Excel. This is a...
2011-05-24
1,197 reads
SQL Rally Day 1 PreCon
Yesterday was the first day of the SQL Rally conference in Orlando, FL.It was a great first day because I...
2011-05-12
821 reads
SSAS - Creating and Using a Writeback Measure Group
Imagine you have spent the last 9 months developing a sales Data Warehouse and an Analysis Services cube.Your end users...
2011-04-25
4,282 reads
SSAS – Using Dimension OrderBy AttributeKey
Often when building dimensions there is a need to order you dimension attributes by something other than the NameColumn or...
2011-04-19
4,150 reads
Blogs
Match the Model to the Task, Not the App: An Orchestrator-Worker Pattern in Python
Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That...
Advice I Like: Responsibility
By Steve Jones
“The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not...
Power BI Performance in 2026: A Practical Guide to Faster Semantic Models and Reports
By James Serra
Originally published April 2022; substantially updated July 2026. This post is a complete replacement...
Forums
Migration Challenge: Excessive FULLSCAN Statistics Update Duration Blocking SQL
Hello everyone , I am planning to migrate a database from SQL Server 2014...
SQL Agent Job Automated Change Capture Process
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Another Model, More Data Loss
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Finding a Database Master Key
Where do I check for the existence of a Database Master Key (DMK) in SQL Server 2025?
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