Excel Tip #24: Removing “Buttons” from Excel Charts
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client , I will be posting tips regularly about using Excel 2013 and later. Much of the content will be a result of my ...
View ArticleTechfuse MN 2015
Join me at Techfuse Minnesota 2015 . I will be presenting on Excel Dashboards.
View ArticleExcel Tip #25: Overlaying Charts
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client , I will be posting tips regularly about using Excel 2013 and later. Much of the content will be a result of my ...
View ArticleOptimizing the Modern Data Platform with SQL Server 2014
Join Jason Strate and Pragmatic Works in Minneapolis on May 7. Learn about Optimizing the Modern Data Platform with SQ Server 2014. Register here .
View ArticleExcel BI Tip #26: Using a Data Spreadsheet or Tab
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client , I will be posting tips regularly about using Excel 2013 and later. Much of the content will be a result of my ...
View ArticleBuilding Your Data Team’s Make Up and Culture
Join Adam Jorgensen and Pragmatic works to learn about Building Your Data Team’s Make Up and Culture on Tuesday, May 5.
View ArticleJoin me Tues, May 12 – Consumption Based Architecture for BI
Join me on Tuesday, May 12 as I discuss consumption based architecture for BI Solutions with Pragmatic Works.
View ArticleHow I Got Started in Software Development-A Tribute to Ed
Steve : Happy Memorial Weekend everyone. This is a time to remember those who have gone before and in some cases have left us. I started a tribute series that celebrates those who have had an ...
View ArticleExcel BI Tip #27: CUBESET and CUBESETCOUNT Functions
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client , I will be posting tips regularly about using Excel 2013 and later. Much of the content will be a result of my ...
View ArticleExcel BI Tip #28: Using member expressions in the CUBEVALUE Function
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client , I will be posting tips regularly about using Excel 2013 and later. Much of the content will be a result of my ...
View ArticleSetting Up an HDInsight Cluster (No Scripts Required)
Let me start by saying, I am not a fan of scripting. It definitely has its place and a lot of my peers really like it. It is the easiest way to get functionality out from software vendors such as ...
View ArticleExploring the Microsoft Azure HDInsight Query Console (No Scripting Required)
As I noted in my previous post , I am not a fan of scripting. In that post we set up a cluster without using scripts to do so. Before we get to the steps to load our own data, I wanted to take a ...
View ArticleUploading Files to an HDInsight Cluster (No Scripting Required)
As I noted in my first post , I am not a fan of scripting. In that post we set up a cluster without using scripts to do so. Now we are going to look at how to upload files without scripts. While ...
View ArticleUsing Power BI with HDInsight Part 1: Power Query and Files
With the rise of HDInsight and other Hadoop based tools, it is valuable to understand how Power BI can help you take advantage of those big data investments. If you need to set up a cluster to work ...
View ArticleUsing Power BI with HDInsight Part 2: Power BI Desktop and Hive
With the rise of HDInsight and other Hadoop based tools, it is valuable to understand how Power BI can help you take advantage of those big data investments. If you need to set up a cluster to work ...
View ArticlePowering Up HDInsight with Power BI
On Tuesday, September 15, I presented on this topic for Pragmatic Works. You can find that session here . This session is based on five blog posts that I created in August 2015. Setting Up ...
View ArticleTechFuse Minnesota Follow Up
My Session: Using Azure SQL Database for Enterprise Needs On 10/6/2015, I presented on Azure SQL Database at TechFuse Minnesota. Some of the highlights from the session included a ...
View ArticleExcel Tip #29: Forcing Slicers to Filter Each Other when Using CUBE Functions
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client , I will be posting tips regularly about using Excel 2013 and later. Much of the content will be a result of my ...
View ArticleSQL Saturday #453–Minnesota 2015 Session Recap–A Window into Your Data
Thanks for attending my session on T-SQL Window Functions. I hope you learned something you can take back and use in your projects or at your work. You will find an link to the session ...
View ArticleSQL Saturday #437–Boston BI Edition 2015–You Can Still Analyze Data with T-SQL
Thanks for attending my session on analyzing data with TSQL. I hope you learned something you can take back and use in your projects or at your work. You will find an link to the session and ...
View ArticleBoston BI User Group Meeting–Dashboard Design with Microsoft: Power BI vs...
Thanks for joining Anthony Martin ( @SQLMartini ) and I at the Boston BI User Group Meeting in October. During the session, we demo’d and built dashboards in Power BI Desktop and Datazen ...
View ArticleFive Years, A Quiet Quarter, A Look Ahead to 2016
Five Years of Blogging From to My blogging story started on December 7, 2010 . I have now had a blog for over 5 years. I want to thank all of you who have ...
View ArticleMinnesota BI User Group – Powering Up HDInsight with Power BI (December 2015)
On Wednesday, December 16, I presented on this topic at the Minnesota BI User Group. This session is based on five blog posts that I created in August 2015. You can find the presentation here: ...
View ArticleExcel Tip #30: Excel Services Visual Limitations – Displaying Images
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client , I will be posting tips regularly about using Excel 2013 and later. Much of the content will be a result of my ...
View ArticleSQL Saturday #486 Richmond – A Window Into Your Data
Thanks for attending my session on window functions in TSQL. I hope you learned something you can take back and use in your projects or at your work. You will find an link to the session and ...
View ArticleVS Live 2016 – Las Vegas Follow Up
I spoke at Visual Studio Live in Vegas on two topics. While the presentations have been uploaded to the site and were available for attendees, the code was not distributed yet as an oversight ...
View ArticleSQL Saturday #492 Follow Up – A Window into Your Data
Thanks for attending my session on window functions in TSQL. I hope you learned something you can take back and use in your projects or at your work. You will find an link to the session and ...
View ArticleJSON in SQL Server 2016 – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Microsoft introduced support for JSON data in SQL Server 2016 and in Azure SQL Database. I was excited to see this functionality coming. As an early user of XML when it was introduced, my ...
View ArticlePower BI Is Finally in the Azure Trust Center
With the most recent announcement of Power BI’s inclusion in the Azure Trust Center, it is a good time to review where we are today with Power BI security and compliance as it relates to various ...
View ArticleNorth Texas SQL Server User Group – September 2016 Follow
Thanks for attending my presentation on window functions in TSQL during the September 15, 2016. I hope you learned something you can take back and use in your projects or at your work. You ...
View ArticleConsumption Based Architecture for Modern Data Analytics
Throughout many years of working with BI solutions and data warehouse solutions, we have strived to put all the data in one location so it could be easily consumed by reporting and analysis tools ...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #87 – Fixing Old Problems with Shiny New Toys: STRING_SPLIT
Thanks to Matt Gordon (@atsqlspeed) for hosting this T-SQL Tuesday. Splitting Strings in SQL A problem that has plagued SQL developers through the years is splitting strings. Many techniques ...
View ArticlePower BI and Data Security – Compliance and Encryption
As Power BI becomes more prevalent in data analytics and visualization within the enterprise, data security becomes a significant concern. Power BI at its best is deployed to the Power BI ...
View ArticlePower BI and Data Security – Sharing Data
As Power BI becomes more prevalent in data analytics and visualization within the enterprise, data security becomes a significant concern. Power BI at its best is deployed to the Power BI service ...
View ArticlePower BI and Data Security – On-premises Data Gateway
As Power BI becomes more prevalent in data analytics and visualization within the enterprise, data security becomes a significant concern. Power BI at its best is deployed to the Power BI ...
View ArticlePower BI and Data Security – Data Classification and Privacy Levels
As Power BI becomes more prevalent in data analytics and visualization within the enterprise, data security becomes a significant concern. Power BI at its best is deployed to the Power BI ...
View ArticlePower BI and Data Security – Row Level Security (RLS)
As Power BI becomes more prevalent in data analytics and visualization within the enterprise, data security becomes a significant concern. Power BI at its best is deployed to the Power BI service ...
View ArticleThoughts about the Microsoft Data Amp Announcements
Microsoft conducted a live event called Microsoft Data Amp to announce a number of key features and releases for SQL Server on premises and data platforms in Azure (such as Azure SQL DB and Azure ...
View ArticlePower BI and Data Security – Free User’s Cannot Share, Read Only in Premium
As part of the Power BI Premium release, Microsoft changed how the “free users” in Power BI work within the platform. There are two key changes that affect the data security within your ...
View ArticlePower BI and Data Security – App Workspaces and Power BI Apps
Shortly after I published the Power BI Security Sharing Data post in April , Power BI Premium, Power BI Apps, and Power BI App Workspaces were released. These changes impacted that post in many ...
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