Putting Corrections in Perspective using Power BI
My enthusiasm for analyzing stock market data using Power BI – even after publishing two posts recently (this and this) – is at...
2015-10-13
547 reads
Sam Vanga
New Article: Loading Fixed Width Files to Staging Tables
My article “SSIS Design Pattern – Staging Fixed Width Flat Files” is published on SQLServerCentral.com. In the article, I provide a...
2015-10-06
648 reads
Calculate Percentage Share in Power BI (DAX)
What’s my share? Calculating percent share of the total is a common need. Let’s see how to calculate this in Power BI...
2015-10-06 (first published: 2015-09-29)
24,905 reads
Finding Next Business Day in T-SQL
Let’s say you have a table that records transactions along with the date of when the transaction took place. Wait,...
2015-09-22
5,138 reads
How to Create Scatter Chart in Power BI
There’s a saying that birds of the same feather flock together. When you throw your data on a scatter chart,...
2015-09-25 (first published: 2015-09-14)
3,083 reads
What is the Difference Between Full Load and Incremental Load
When you start working in ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) or SSIS projects, you’ll be faced with two basic terms:...
2015-09-16 (first published: 2015-09-08)
33,814 reads
How to Create Pareto Chart in Power BI
About 80% of the world’s population lives in about 13% of the countries. Okay, this statement is not as knee-jerking...
2015-09-01
7,103 reads
Stock Market Chart in Power BI
U.S. stock markets have taken a beating this past week fueled by China markets. Take a look at how China and...
2015-09-02 (first published: 2015-08-24)
3,528 reads
Tracking S&P 500 Using Power BI
S&P 500 index is an American stock market index consisting of 500 large companies and is considered to be the...
2015-08-17
2,667 reads
Replace Blank Values to NULL in SSIS
Blank values are annoying, anywhere and everywhere. If your source system contains them, here’s how to convert blank values to NULL in...
2015-08-11
15,582 reads
Blogs
Why is shrinking IT budgets a good thing?
Each year around this time, companies enter the familiar ritual of budgeting. For many,...
Reverse Engineering a Physical Model Diagram
By Steve Jones
I recently wrote about a logical diagram with Redgate Data Modeler. That was interesting,...
Prepping for Certification, Part 3 of ?
By Brian Kelley
After I have understood the details for a certification test (part 1), including format...
Forums
Best analysis approach to reduce data type length in multiple tables
Hello SSC, I hope everyone is having a happy and safe holiday season! I...
Do you separate data/log files and TempDB files on different disks using AWS EC2
Hello, I am receiving multiple direction on deploying SQL Servers in AWS EC2. ...
Service account being in local admin in AWS EC2 environment?
Hello, I am working with a company on their database administration. I am trying...
Question of the Day
A New Operator
In SQL Server 2025, what does this code return?
SELECT '1' || '0'See possible answers