Missing Checkbox for Security Filter in Power BI Desktop
Just a quick blog post so that other people don’t waste 15 minutes of their life looking for a missing...
2017-02-17 (first published: 2017-02-09)
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Koen Verbeeck
Dynamically Changing Shapes in Power BI – Alternatives
NOTE: the DAX presented in this blog post is written in my locale (nl-BE). This means that semicolons are used...
2017-02-16 (first published: 2017-02-08)
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Dynamically Changing Shapes in Power BI
UPDATE: I also published a blog post using a DAX only approach. Check it out here.
Recently someone had a question...
2017-02-13 (first published: 2017-02-07)
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Microsoft Data Platform MVP Award
I’m very pleased, humbled, surprised and overall gleeful to announce I’m awarded the Microsoft Data Platform MVP 2017 Award.
This is...
2017-02-02
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Speaking at Techorama 2017
I’m delighted to announce that I’m selected as a speaker for the Techorama event.
Techorama is a developer congress focusing (but...
2017-01-31
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Help me raise money for cancer research #tourneeminerale
In Belgium, a national campaign is launched to raise money for cancer research: #TourneeMinerale. In this campaign, people can be...
2017-01-19
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T-SQL Tuesday 86: SQL Server Bugs & Enhancement Requests
Let’s kick off the new year with a T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s edition is hosted by Brent Ozar:
Announcing T-SQL Tuesday...
2017-01-10
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Clustered Columnstore Index really hates Updates
First a little background. I’m working on a large fact table that behaves itself as a slowly changing type 2...
2017-01-03 (first published: 2016-12-23)
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Master Data Services Error – Missing Temp Directory
I recently had to install SQL Server 2016 again on my Windows 10 machine. This also meant that I had...
2016-12-15
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SSIS Naming Conventions 2.0
People who have been working for a while with Integration Services probably know the legendary blog post by SQL Server...
2016-12-13 (first published: 2016-12-02)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
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would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
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I'm thinking about submitting some articles
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers