Understanding Microsoft Power BI – Self Service Solutions
This article discusses Microsoft Power BI, different tools under the Microsoft Power BI umbrella and when each of them can be used.
2013-11-26
3,880 reads
This article discusses Microsoft Power BI, different tools under the Microsoft Power BI umbrella and when each of them can be used.
2013-11-26
3,880 reads
There is a lot of Microsoft buzz about Power BI and Excel these days, but customers need real-world, professional business intelligence solutions that meet their complex real-world requirements today. In this article, Jen Underwood shares what technologies were used to develop a dashboard solution for a Fortune Global 500 company using Microsoft Business Intelligence technologies, and why. Some of the decisions may surprise you and the lessons learned are sure to be of value.
2013-11-07
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This white paper provides practical guidance to help BI professionals and decision makers decide whether SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services tabular or multidimensional modeling provides the best fit for your next BI solution.
2012-09-14
3,452 reads
Easy way to setup a comprehensive ETL Performance auditing Solution no matter how complicated your ETL setup.
2014-11-14 (first published: 2012-06-19)
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Are you prepared for Big Data? A short piece from Henrico Bekker that talks about what Big Data might mean to many people.
2012-04-16
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Customer interactions create a wealth of timely data that marketing departments are eager to exploit. The customer status fact table provides a central switchboard for using this fast-moving data.
2010-07-01
2,416 reads
How do you, as a database administrator, display the wealth of knowledge in your Database to the organization in a meaningful way -- Business Intelligence.
2010-05-14
4,902 reads
Thiago kicks off a new series of articles, taking us through everything we need to know to use PowerPivot effectively. First off, he walks us through the prerequisites, and getting started with our first basic data set.
2010-01-22
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BI Architect Bill Pearson continues his discussion of Partition planning for Analysis Services, this time focusing on the settings and properties involved from a SQL Server Management Studio perspective.
2009-12-16
2,465 reads
This, the first in a series of three articles, describes the history of information workers and discusses their characteristics. The next article will describe how to leverage the latest BI technologies, and the final article will address how to improve information consumability.
2009-11-03
2,375 reads
One feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize...
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I am currently working with Sql Server 2022 and AdventureWorks database. First of all, let's set the "Read Committed Snapshot" to ON:
use master; go alter database AdventureWorks set read_committed_snapshot on with no_wait; goThen, from Session 1, I execute the following code:
--Session 1 use AdventureWorks; go create table ##t1 (id int, f1 varchar(10)); go insert into ##t1 values (1, 'A');From another session, called Session 2, I open a transaction and execute the following update:
--Session 2 use AdventureWorks; go begin tran; update ##t1 set f1 = 'B' where id = 1;Now, going back to Session 1, what happens if I execute this statement?
--Session 1 select f1 from ##t1 where id = 1;See possible answers