Book Review – Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices

11 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

11 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

11 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

11 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

12 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

1 year 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

1 year 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

1 year 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

1 year 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

1 year 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…