Blog Post: Power BI Error - Provider Microsoft.Mashup.OleDb.1 is not registered
In Power BI for Office 365, you can schedule the data in the Excel data model (Power Pivot) to be refreshed daily or weekly. This is one of the additional pieces of functionality available when the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Power BI - Overview of Features End-to-End
The following diagram is an end-to-end overview of the major features of Power BI for Office 365. Excel is the environment for data access, preparation, modeling, and visualization of the data. In...
View ArticleBlog Post: Removing part of string before and after specific character using...
Problem Today, one of the developers come to me and asked me the question that is there any T-SQL function that he could use to remove everything before and after a specific character in string. For...
View ArticleBlog Post: Rebuild all indexes on all tables in the SQL Server database
One of the key tasks of a DBA is to maintain the database indexes and make sure they are not fragmented. You can use a sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats in a script to rebuild or reorganize indexes based...
View ArticleBlog Post: Standard Deviations with CTE in SQL
I was working with a client recently getting the number of standard deviations a student was off the average number of suspensions. I accomplished this with two Common Table Expressions, (CTE). The...
View ArticleBlog Post: What’s the difference between a temp table and a table variable?
I recently saw an answer to this question on dba.stackexchange.com written by Martin Smith . It was probably one of the most complete answers to this question I have ever seen. In fact it’s probably...
View ArticleBlog Post: First few bites of the elephant: working with Hortonworks Hadoop
So a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was starting to diversify my data interests in hopes of steering my career path a bit; I’ve built a home brewed server, and downloaded a copy of the Hortonworks...
View ArticleBlog Post: Expiration dates: SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
SQL Server is a software product, right? And software has a history of having bugs, getting updates, and having support for when things go wrong. If you’re not already aware, now is a good time to...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQLSaturday Budapest #278: Coffee Corner for Women In Technology:...
Social systems don't trailblaze and they are not necessarily easily visible. However, social methods are quietly voted in by societies and it's easy not to notice them. How can you try to make sure...
View ArticleBlog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #72
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” ( so exciting ), follow me on twitter ( @StrateSQL ). And see these throughout the day as I tweet out...
View ArticleBlog Post: Entering the SQL Matrix
I know why you are here and I know what you’ve been doing. You hardly sleep and why night after night you sit by the computer; you are looking for what they call ~ The SQL Knowledge. I know because I...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS Summit 2014 – Call for Speakers
That’s right ladies and gentlemen the PASS Summit 2014 Summit Call for Speakers is officially open for business!!! Last year was my first year presenting at a Summit and I can’t wait to submit and...
View ArticleBlog Post: PowerShell – Export SQL Data to Excel with Powershell
SQL Server Export to Excel with Powershell is very useful for all sorts of activities – ETL and reporting are some examples. This post is to Export SQL Data to Excel with Powershell.In this example,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Allocation in Power Query
Now that the brave new world of self-service BI is upon us, old-school corporate BI types like me need to sharpen our Excel skills – and anyone learning Excel will, sooner or later, end up on Bill...
View ArticleBlog Post: Got Azure Questions? Ask Dear Azure
Like that crazy uncle who bailed you out of a jam without saying a word to your parents, Dear Azure is here to help. Dear Azure supplies unique answers to all of your cloud questions. Want to...
View ArticleBlog Post: ERROR || The query processor is unable to produce a plan because...
Table with clustered index is totally depended on index accessibility. ERROR : The query processor is unable to produce a plan because the index ‘IND_TABLE’ on table or view ‘Table’ is disabled....
View ArticleBlog Post: Colorado Springs has a new SQL Saturday Twist
SQL Saturdays are all about giving back and if you have been to a SQL Saturday I hope you have seen that first hand. This year at SQL Saturday #297 in Colorado Springs, Co. we want to emphasize this...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reinstall SQL Server Performance Counters
I’ve had several instances over the last few months where I had to reinstall the SQL Server Performance Counters. It sounds odd to have them magically disappear, but I’ve found a 3rd party monitoring...
View ArticleBlog Post: What is HDInsight?
There are two flavors of HDInsight: Windows Azure HDInsight Service and Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows. Both were developed in partnership with Hadoop software developer and distributor...
View ArticleBlog Post: Excel: Using Inquire
Quietly, Microsoft released a new feature with Excel 2013 Professional called Inquire. Inquire allows you to do all kinds of things at an excel level, making it much easier to analyze workbooks for...
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