Book Review – Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices

7 months ago

I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices 2nd edition (Amazon link),…

Create a Numbers Table in Power Query

7 months ago

This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if I need it somewhere in the…

Microsoft finally adds Tenant Switcher for Fabric / Power BI

7 months ago

Praise whatever deity you believe in, because it's finally here, a tenant switcher for Microsoft Fabric (which includes Power BI).…

Book Review – Humanizing Data Strategy by Tiankai Feng

7 months ago

This book was making its rounds on social media, and the concept seems interesting enough to make me want to…

Free webinar – Tackling the Gaps and Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions

7 months ago

I'm hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM UTC. The topic is about window…

dataMinds Connect 2024 – Session Materials

8 months ago

The slides and scripts for my session "Tackling the Gaps & Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions" at dataMinds Connect…

Connect to Power BI as a Guest User in another Tenant

9 months ago

Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added as a guest user in another…

How to use a Script Activity in ADF as a Lookup

12 months ago

In Azure Data Factory (ADF, but also Synapse Pipelines and Fabric Pipelines), you have a typical scenario where you retrieve…

Database Build Error – Incorrect syntax near DISTINCT

12 months ago

I wrote a piece of SQL that had some new T-SQL syntax in it: IS DISTINCT FROM. This predicate checks…

Speaking at dataMinds Connect 2024

12 months ago

I'm very excited to announce I've been selected as a speaker for dataMinds Connect 2024, Belgium's (and maybe/probably/most likely mainland…