How to get Power BI RLS to work with external users
Let me start by thanking Adam Saxton aka Guy in a Cube and Hope Foley for helping me with this...
2016-10-06
3,250 reads
SQLDownSouth
Happy Birthday Power BI
Well today marks the one year anniversary since the initial release of Power BI. We all have watched this product...
2016-07-24
792 reads
Join me at SQL Saturday 531, Louisville, KY
So, I have the privilege of not only delivering a regular session, Introduction to Power BI Desktop, at SQL Saturday...
2016-07-21
617 reads
Using Power BI to list Enterprise Only SQL Features
Someone recently asked me if there was a list of all the SQL Server “Enterprise Only” features available on the...
2016-07-19
638 reads
What’s wrong with the Power BI KPI Visual?
Over the past couple of weeks I have been asked several times about the KPI Visual that is native to...
2016-07-06
1,982 reads
Higher Education Retention Analytics using Power BI
Partnering with Stetson University, I am happy to share the first of many Power BI Higher Education Analytics solutions. This...
2016-06-06 (first published: 2016-06-01)
2,312 reads
SQL Saturday 486: Richmond, VA Precon
Thursday afternoon I am flying to Richmond, VA to deliver my full day Power BI Beginning to End and attend...
2016-03-14
1,048 reads
Refreshing KPI Data in SSRS 2016
Continuing my blog from last week, Creating KPIs in SQL Reporting Services, I am now going to explain how to...
2016-03-01 (first published: 2016-02-23)
4,111 reads
More SQL Saturday Precon News(Real-time Dashboards)!!!!
As you read in my earlier post, I am delivering a couple of precons in Tampa, FL and Richmond, VA. ...
2016-02-19
1,212 reads
Creating KPIs in SQL Reporting Services
In this blog I will explain how to create a Key Performance Indicatory (KPI) in SQL Reporting Services 2016. Let’s...
2016-02-22 (first published: 2016-02-17)
6,781 reads
Blogs
Delta Lake over Spark Connect
By Ed Elliott
All Spark Connect Posts I have just finished an update for the spark connect dotnet...
Generating Random Strings with GenAI
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been experimenting with in AI is taking things other...
Heading to SQL Bits 2025
By Steve Jones
I’ll be at SQL Bits tomorrow, Saturday Jun 20, 2025 for the final day...
Forums
Merge techniques
In Azure SQL DB, i want to merge records from the staging table to...
SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant value...
Full error message: SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant...
XML_COMPRESSION for existing tables
We are in the process of upgrading to SQL Server 2022 and would like...
Question of the Day
Adding Defaults
I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code.
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() GO ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate GOWhat happens when I run these two batches? See possible answers