Power BI Incremental Refresh with Web API Data Source
It’s been a while since I typed up a blog post but life, even in the midst of a pandemic, has been busy and crazy. As you can imagine,...
2020-06-02 (first published: 2020-05-20)
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SQL with Dustin Ryan
Welcome to Azure Synapse at SQL Saturday Tampa 2020
SQL Saturday Tampa is coming up again in a couple of weeks on February 29th and I’m excited to announce that I’ll be there and presenting my session Welcome...
2020-02-12
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Dynamic Column Level Security with Power BI and SSAS
Last week I was asked to tackle a requirement by a customer adopting Analysis Services to enable data exploration and ad hoc analysis by their users. One of their...
2019-10-15 (first published: 2019-10-09)
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See You at SQL Saturday South Florida on Saturday June 8th!
SQL Saturday South Florida is on Saturday June 8th and its just around the corner! The event is hosted at the Nova Southeastern University campus in Davie, Florida near...
2019-05-31
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Visualizing NFL Draft History with Power BI
With the 2019 NFL Draft upon us, of course I wanted to visualize some NFL draft data in Power BI. So I put together this interesting set of visualizations...
2019-05-07 (first published: 2019-04-26)
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Power BI Governance 101 at SQL Saturday 820 in Jacksonville, Florida on May 4
Coming up in just a couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my session, Power BI Governance 101, at SQL Saturday #820 in Jacksonville, Florida on May 4th. The event...
2019-04-22
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Data Warehouse Design and Power BI at SQL Saturday Tampa 2019
Hello, fellow data nerds! I wanted to make you aware of a fantastic event coming up this month in Tampa,...
2019-03-11
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Power BI Architecture Diagram v4 is now available!
I’ve finally updated my Power BI Architecture Diagram to include some of the new features that are now available and...
2019-02-16
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Calculating Quartiles with DAX and Power BI
Like many of my blog posts, this post is inspired by some work I was doing with a customer who...
2018-09-18 (first published: 2018-08-31)
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NFL Football Player Stats & Analysis 2018 is now available!
I’ve had a lot of people ask me for this over the past few months and its finally (mostly) ready!...
2018-09-03 (first published: 2018-08-21)
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Blogs
Migrating from EverNote to Joplin
By Steve Jones
Recently I got a message that my Evernote subscription was going up. It’s been...
Using Data Masker on Chinese Surnames
By Steve Jones
A customer had a question recently on masking Chinese characters. I thought that was...
A New Word: Looseleft
By Steve Jones
looseleft – the feeling of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight...
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