Executing DBCC for SQL Server Analysis Services 2016
In the upcoming release of SQL Server Analysis Services 2016, one of the new features you’ll see is the ability...
2015-09-09 (first published: 2015-09-03)
2,119 reads
SQL with Dustin Ryan
10 DAX Calculations for your Tabular or Power Pivot Model (Part 1)
If you’ve read my blog for a while you may have seen the following posts:
Ten MDX Calculations For Your Cube...
2015-09-02
1,077 reads
Join Me for Free #PowerPivot Training w/ @ExcelBIPASS Sept 10 – 12p CDT
I’m excited to be able to say that coming up next week on Thursday September 10, I’ll be presenting my...
2015-09-01
788 reads
5 Tips for #PowerBI
After a couple months of fun with Power BI, I’ve picked up a few little tricks along the way that...
2015-09-04 (first published: 2015-08-29)
4,422 reads
Taking #PowerPivot to the Next Level
Power Pivot is an amazing, flexible and powerful business intelligence tool (among other things) and there is no doubt about...
2015-08-26
1,042 reads
Designing a Data Warehouse from the Ground Up Webinar Recording with Q & A
Thank you to everyone that registered and attended my webinar Designing your Data Warehouse from the Ground Up webinar this...
2015-08-21
744 reads
Importing Power Pivot & Power View into Power BI
The Power BI August update just rolled out today (8/20/2015) and in the latest update there’s a lot of cool,...
2015-08-20
2,474 reads
Power BI Tip: Use a Scatter Chart to Create a Calendar Report
The Scatter Chart in Power BI and Excel is very useful chart for visualizing three different metrics in tandem. But...
2015-08-28 (first published: 2015-08-19)
3,531 reads
Refreshing Excel Power Query & Pivot Tables with SSIS and Task Factory
With SSIS 2014 and earlier there is currently not native way to refresh an Excel workbook which include Power Query...
2015-08-15
1,170 reads
Here’s the New #Excel 2016 Chart Types!
The Office 2016 Public Preview is now available for download! Included in the preview of Excel 2016 are a handful...
2015-08-12
1,156 reads
Blogs
More fun with Git: git restore
The setup My day job involves babysitting a lot of Git repositories hosted on...
When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages
By John
Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two...
Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4
By Brian Kelley
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...
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Catalog max connection pool size: 100
Seeing this message repeated every 10 seconds in the RSHostingService_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.log file. Can anyone advise:...
CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format
I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...
what are the downsides of TDE not running vs running?
hi for the 2 years i've been here I believe we've had "encryption" turned...
Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers