Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #15: Locking Slicer Position
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2014-06-23 (first published: 2014-06-18)
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The Curse of Relational Databases
Let’s face it, none of Information Technology is easy. Oh yeah, there are those few geniuses that have an absolute...
2014-06-23 (first published: 2014-06-18)
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Cluster Headache - Applying Service Pack and SQL Fails to Come On-line
Having
applied dozens and dozens of Service Packs to various SQL Server clusters, I
still never cease to learn that not everything...
2014-06-20 (first published: 2014-06-18)
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Aliasing a SQL Server: When it works, when it doesn’t and when it may be your problem.
Creating an alias for a SQL Server is fairly easy and there are several ways to do it. Configuration Manager...
2014-06-20 (first published: 2014-06-18)
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Setting up Automation in Azure
As I’ve started digging deeper into using Azure the need to automate tasks (turn off all VMs, turn on all...
2014-06-19 (first published: 2014-06-18)
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A Month, Almost Two Months Offline–Was the Silence Deafening?
The past couple of months has been very busy at home and at work so I have fallen behind a...
2014-06-18
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Microsoft's Lousy Response to a Connect Issue
I’ve been going through the process of upgrading from SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2014 and I’ve hit a bug when running snapshots. Any snapshot that was in...
2014-06-18
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Business Intelligence Roles and Team Composition
On Business Intelligence projects of all sizes, the composition of the team is a crucial element for success. What is...
2014-06-17
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Kerberos Configuration Manager’s Nasty Bug
The Kerberos Configuration Manager is a really handy tool that can make configuring Kerberos a much easier task, but it’s...
2014-06-17
3,107 reads
Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 18
I’m on vacation this week, but enjoying some quiet time during the day to think a little, going back through...
2014-06-17
757 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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