Power BI On Premises Integration with Reporting Services Preview
Since the Reporting Services product team announced last year that it was their intention to provide an on premises deployment...
2016-11-24 (first published: 2016-11-19)
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SQL Server BI Blog
SQL Server 2016 SP1 is Now Available
In the Business Intelligence and reporting space, SQL Server 2016 was a big step forward. Aside from significant relational engine...
2016-11-16
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Business Analytics Day Jan 11, 2017 Chicago
I hope you can join me at the Chicago Microsoft Technology Center for the PASS Business Analytics Day, on Wednesday,...
2016-11-14
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Happy Birthday Power BI
Today marks the first anniversary of Power BI Desktop and the Power BI Service. The effort to achieve this milestone...
2016-07-24
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SSRS 2016 Book Nearly Done… My Brain is now Jell-O
(first excerpt from the upcoming book) “Professional SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services and Mobile Reports” from Wrox Press is content...
2016-07-20
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What do you want to learn about SSRS 2016 at PASS Global Summit?
I’m thrilled to have been selected to deliver a session at the 2016 PASS Global Summit titled “Reporting Services 2016:...
2016-06-29 (first published: 2016-06-24)
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Using Power BI with Enterprise, On-premises Data
I just finished posting a 4-part series demonstrating how to use Power BI with on-premises data. The running time for...
2016-06-19
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Row-level Security Just Got Better: Passing Report Credentials to Analysis Services in SQL Server 2016
A new ground-breaking feature in SQL Server 2016 allows report user context to be passed through shared data sources, enabling...
2016-06-16 (first published: 2016-06-13)
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Where are SQL Server 2016 Client Tools?
So, you just installed SQL Server 2016 and you’re pretty sure you chose the options to install the client tools...
2016-05-27
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Power BI Application Embedding Releases Today
A few weeks ago, the Power BI team gave us the ability to freely embed Power BI reports, dashboards and...
2016-04-01
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Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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