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
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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
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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)
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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
5,213 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)
3,112 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)
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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
7,153 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)
3,546 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
2,693 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
15,697 reads
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Checking the Error Log II
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