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Month: May 2021

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Tracing Anonymous Logons

In a recent project, I had to execute an SSIS package deployed to the catalog from a stored procedure. The package uses Windows authentication to connect to the data sources. When executing the package from the catalog or from the stored procedure, the package immediately fails and the following two errors are logged: DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER. The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Source" failed with…

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A First Look at Power BI Goals

A vital BI practice for every organization, performance management ensures that important metrics, such as Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), meet established goals. The typical artifact to do so is implementing a scorecard: a report that compares the current state with the desired state of these metrics. You might have also heard the term "balanced scorecard" which is an organization-wide scorecard that tracks several subject areas,…

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