SQL Server BI Blog

Color Themes for Power BI

• by pturley

• SQL Server BI Blog

Color coordination is important in report and dashboard design.  We’ve seen theming and color pallet options in the prior iteration...

2016-03-22

1,144 reads

Annual Business Intelligence Survey

• by pturley

• SQL Server BI Blog

This is a reminder to compete the annual Business Intelligence product survey conducted by BARC Research.  I’ve been participating in...

2016-03-15

454 reads

Article Series: Power BI Solutions for the Enterprise

• by pturley

• SQL Server BI Blog

I’m working on a series of articles about creating enterprise solutions with Power BI and the first article was published...

2016-02-28

871 reads

Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI/BA and the Lone Three Leaders

• by pturley

• SQL Server BI Blog

History clearly confirms that good things come in threes.  As far as I know this is the first time that...

2016-02-05

498 reads

Webcast: Upgrading and Migrating SQL Server 2005 BI Features to SQL Server 2014 and 2016

• by pturley

• SQL Server BI Blog

Please join me on February 3rd at 10 Pacific Time for this presentation brought to you by Microsoft and SolidQ...

2016-01-26

513 reads

Tabular Models, Multiple Data Sources and Unknown Members

• by pturley

• SQL Server BI Blog

Self-service data modeling tools like Power BI Desktop, Power Pivot and SSAS Tabular promote the advantage of using data from...

2015-12-29

1,030 reads

Complete DAX Function Reference

• by pturley

• SQL Server BI Blog

The DAX function documentation in MSDN can be found on separate pages,  organized by function categories and then details for...

2015-11-26

1,003 reads

SQL Server 2005 End of Support and Business Intelligence

• by pturley

• SQL Server BI Blog

How does the official end of support for SQL Server 2005 affect companies using Reporting Services, Analysis Services and other...

2015-12-02 (first published: 2015-11-24)

1,864 reads

The Resurrection of Reporting Services & The Maturing of Power BI

• by pturley

• SQL Server BI Blog

Spending the past two weeks at the annual PASS Global Summit and the Microsoft MVP Summit, I’ve consumed a literal...

2015-11-12

467 reads

Oregon SQL Saturday 2015 Keynote

• by pturley

• SQL Server BI Blog

This year we are honored to have a particularly special guest kicking off our SQL Saturday event on October 24th. ...

2015-10-02

460 reads