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
692 reads
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
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview
By Steve Jones
One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way...
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Tame Those Strings (Series)
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SSRS shared dataset parameters not showing in expression builder
I am creating shared datasets that our executive staff can use for creating reports...
SSRS shared dataset parameters not showing in expression builder
I am creating shared datasets that our executive staff can use for creating reports...
Question of the Day
The Decoded Value
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers