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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
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Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;