by Gil Raviv | Oct 31, 2016 | Data Chant
Follow Me At the end of each month, the Power BI team releases a new update to Power BI Desktop. You can go here to learn what’s new in the latest version. This post first appeared at http://datachant.com/2016/10/31/column-grouping-power-bi-desktop-october-update/....
by Jeanne Combrinck | Oct 31, 2016 | SQL Girl
A contained database is a database that is isolated from other databases and from the instance of SQL Server that hosts the database. Basically it includes all database settings and the metadata within itself thereby resulting in no configuration dependencies on the...
by Melissa Coates | Oct 31, 2016 | SQL Chick
This is part 1 of 3 about Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS) which was announced a few days ago. Azure AS is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering which is currently in public preview mode at the time of this writing (late October 2016). Part 1: Why a Semantic Layer...
by Gil Raviv | Oct 30, 2016 | Data Chant
Microsoft Power BI team released a new custom visual last week (Oct 26) – The Infographic Designer. You can download the custom visual here. This post first appeared at http://datachant.com/2016/10/30/power-bi-infographic-designer/. The author is Gil RavivRead...
by Jeanne Combrinck | Oct 27, 2016 | SQL Girl
There have been many discussions on whether a temp table is better to use or a table variable. It depends on what you would like to do. They both have their pros, cons and limitations. Table Variable Limitations This post first appeared...