by Melissa Coates | Dec 31, 2017 | SQL Chick
As we are approaching the end of 2017, many people have resolutions or goals for the new year. How about a goal to get organized…in your data lake? The most important aspect of organizing a data lake is optimal data retrieval. This post first appeared...
by Chris Webb | Dec 29, 2017 | Chris Webb
Every year, on the anniversary of the first-ever post on this blog, I write a post summarising my thoughts on what’s happening in the world of Microsoft BI and what I’m up to professionally. Here I am thirteen years and 1232 posts on from where I started… First of...
by Matt Allington | Dec 26, 2017 | Excelerator BI
Level: Intermediate I was helping someone on a forum recently and I thought the question and solution would make an interesting blog article. I have adapted the scenario to work with Adventure Works customer purchases, but this concept would work equally well across...
by Gil Raviv | Dec 26, 2017 | Data Chant
Better late than never. Prior to 2017 Power BI Data Insights Summit, Microsoft published here three challenges, including a complex data preparation. So, I had to try it. At the time, I was too busy to submit my solution, but I planned to share it at DataChant. You...
by Melissa Coates | Dec 24, 2017 | SQL Chick
My colleague and friend Meagan Longoria has been giving me a few “gentle nudges” to update an old post about this topic: This post first appeared...