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
550 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
651 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)
24,925 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
5,154 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)
3,086 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)
33,872 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
7,111 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)
3,530 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
2,670 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
15,610 reads
Blogs
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
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AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers