Boston 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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