Please join us for the next meeting on Monday, May 1st, at 6:30 PM ET. Akshata Revankar (Data Engineer, Specialist at McKinsey & Company) will show you how to leverage Power BI deployment pipelines to promote content changes between environments, such as DEV and PROD. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. WE NOW MEET BOTH IN-PERSON AND ONLINE. WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE…
I've spent hours on this so someone else might find the solution useful. I've developed an SSIS package that uses a ForEach Loop container. Then, I closed Visual Studio and reopen it. The SSIS designer opens the package, thinks for a few seconds if it likes it or not, and then it crashes Visual Studio. I've noticed that the VS status bar shows a message…
Please join us for the next meeting on Monday, April 3rd, at 6:30 PM ET. Your humble correspondent will revisit Power BI important fundamentals in a demo-packed session. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR IN-PERSON MEETING LOCATION HAS CHANGED! WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO ATTEND THE EVENT IN PERSON FOR BEST EXPERIENCE. ALTERNATIVELY, YOU CAN JOIN OUR…
Warning: This blog contains old tricks of an old dog. Scenario: Suppose you have a large table in SQL Server, e.g. hundreds of millions or even a billion rows. DML operations (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) take long time. How do you speed them up? Do you split the large table into multiple tables? Or, do you ask for better hardware? Or, do you start looking…
There has been a lot of noise surrounding a data lakehouse nowadays, so I felt the urge to chime in. In fact, the famous guy in cube, Patrick LeBlanc, gave a great presentation on this subject to our Atlanta Power BI Group and you can find the recording here (I have to admit we could have done better job with the recording quality, but we are still learning in…
Please join us for the next meeting on Monday, March 6th, at 6:30 PM ET. Leo Furlong (Senior Solutions Architect at Databricks) will share their point of view on why “the best data warehouse is a lakehouse.” For more details and sign up, visit our group page. PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR IN-PERSON MEETING LOCATION HAS CHANGED! WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO ATTEND THE EVENT IN…
I'm presenting at SQL Saturday Atlanta 2023 - BI & Data Analytics Edition on February 25th at 9 AM (the very first slot in the very first room for very first early birds). I'll do a Power BI Dashboard in an Hour this time to revisit the basics. I hope to see some of you there. Targeting novice Power BI users, this hands-on, no-slide session…
Microsoft announced a public preview of Power BI Dataset scale-out (DSO) for Power Premium, Premium per User (PPU), and Power BI Embedded. In the comments below the announcement, the article implies that this feature is a replacement for the Azure Analysis Services scale-out. "If you have an AAS scale out and you migrate your databases (aka models aka datasets aka cubes) to Power BI Premium,…
There has been a lot of noise surrounding a data lakehouse nowadays, so I felt the urge to chime in. In fact, the famous guy in cube, Patrick LeBlanc, gave a great presentation on this subject to our Atlanta Power BI Group and you can find the recording here (I have to admit we could have done better job with the recording quality, but we…
Please join us for the next meeting on Monday, February 6th, at 6:30 PM ET. Patrick LeBlanc (Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and Guy in a Cube) will show you how to implement a lakehouse with Delta lake, Azure Data Factory, and Synapse. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. WE ARE RESUMING IN-PERSON MEETINGS AT THE MICROSOFT OFFICE IN ALPHARETTA. WE…
