New Tabular Schema in SQL Server 2016
Those of you who had to generate programmatically Tabular models or make changes to the schema would agree that it was more complicated that it should have been. That’s because […]
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Introducing Office Online Server
Continuing the line of thought from my previous blog “Microsoft Unveils BI Roadmap”, one nagging question still remains. What to do with all these Excel files now that SSRS came […]
Microsoft Unveils BI Roadmap
Today at the SQL PASS Summit 2015, Microsoft shared its BI roadmap for next year and beyond. The BI cloud roadmap shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. It’s centered around […]
Power BI Embedded Dashboards Without Authentication UI
UPDATE: An updated sample is included in the Chapter 12 source code of my “Applied Power BI” book. One of the biggest Power BI strengths is its open architecture. In […]
SQL Server MVP for 12 Years
Microsoft awarded me again with the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for SQL Server. This is an annual prestigious award given to selected individuals worldwide in recognition for their expertise […]
Atlanta MS BI Group September 28th Meeting
Come and join us on Monday, September 28th, for our next Atlanta MS BI Group meeting. The topic this time is “Enhancing Data Analysis and Predictive Analytics with NoSQL” delivered […]
Power BI Report Embedding on the Horizon
For years I’ve been harassing Microsoft to support embedding interactive reports connected to SSAS on custom apps. This feature has been sorely missing in the Microsoft BI stack. Yet, it’s […]
Azure D-Series VM Prices Go Down
I’m optimizing a SQL Server OLTP mirrored database hosted on an Azure VM. After load testing, it was clear that CPU is the primary resource constraint so I suggested an […]
Load Testing Azure Applications
Scenario: You’re conducting a capacity planning effort and load testing an Azure website (Azure App Service) that saves data to SQL Server running on Azure VM. You’ve created a load […]
Atlanta MS BI Group 5th Anniversary
Our next Atlanta MS BI Group meeting will be on August 31st. This happens to be our 5th anniversary! Thanks for everybody who contributed to the group success! We’ve come […]
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