How to Slice Data by Fiscal Month using DAX for Power BI Reports
In this article, learn how to set the current fiscal month identity in a calendar table using DAX for Power BI when dealing with fiscal periods.
2024-09-02
In this article, learn how to set the current fiscal month identity in a calendar table using DAX for Power BI when dealing with fiscal periods.
2024-09-02
As a DBA, we are often tasked with maintenance work on the database. Often this includes making sure that old data is purged from the tables. This is especially true with logging tables. Sometimes multiple applications write to the same logging tables, and they can grow very quickly. Let’s say we have a logging table […]
2024-08-30 (first published: 2021-10-15)
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Conference planning is underway. Several folks have asked me whether I think the PASS conference is still worth exhibiting. I thought an article would be best to break down my thoughts. I’m in an interesting position, being a marketing leader who also specializes in SQL Server and doesn’t work for Microsoft. I’ve worked directly for several companies in the ecosystem, so I know how difficult reaching the DBA market has been post-pandemic.
2024-08-30
Real-Time dashboards are a great feature in Real Time Intelligence experience to monitor our data. However, by default ...
2024-08-30
Database DevOps practices can help you ship features faster, but how do you safely enable this, and ensure those updates will successfully deploy? Redgate Test Data Manager was developed to resolve bottlenecks and challenges, helping organizations ship deployments they can trust by enabling developers and testers to self-serve test data that walks and talks like production with sensitive customer data taken care of. Read more on the blog.
2024-08-28
Learn about object-level, column-level, and row-level security in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse and how this can be implemented to limit access to data.
2024-08-28
As part of my work with Redgate, I wanted to do some testing on our subsetting and masking tools. Subsetting needs a big data set, and while Stack Overflow is big, it's kind of simple. I wanted something a little different. Since our engineers use Northwind to do a lot of demos, I decided to […]
2024-08-26
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I recently had to help support synchronization and distribution of workloads between multiple servers.
2024-08-26
Learn about the different iterator activities in Azure Data Factory.
2024-08-23 (first published: 2021-10-22)
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Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at our discretion. This is something I encourage you to negotiate when you are considering a job or at your annual review. We all need to learn and a budget signifies your boss cares about you.
2024-08-23
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
By HeyMo0sh
Microsoft Fabric (not to be confused with the more general term “fabric” in DevOps)...
I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this from digging into it yesterday,...
Hi Team, I am trying to refresh the Azure Synapse Dedicated pool from production...
hi everyone I am not sure how to write the query that will produce...
I have some data in a table:
CREATE TABLE #test_data
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(100),
birth_date DATE
);
-- Step 2: Insert rows
INSERT INTO #test_data
VALUES
(1, 'Olivia', '2025-01-05'),
(2, 'Emma', '2025-03-02'),
(3, 'Liam', '2025-11-15'),
(4, 'Noah', '2025-12-22');
If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT *
FROM OPENJSON(
(
SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
)
) t; See possible answers