One of the interesting features of Master Data Services 2016 is Change Set and Require Approval. In prior versions of MDS when you apply a change and publish that change automatically take place in the entity and records. However in the new MDS in SQL Server 2016 you can create a Change Set of your Read more about Change Set and Approval Workflow in MDS 2016[…]
SQL Server 2016 brings some new features for Integration Services such as AlwaysOn, and Custom Advanced Logging. You’ve probably read about these features in other blog posts, If you haven’t I encourage you to read some of them, like this. These changes also comes with some changes in SSIS Catalog, in this post I’m going Read more about SSIS Catalog Changes in 2016[…]
In previous steps you’ve learned how to extract and mash up the data from CSV and automate the process of looping through all CSV files in the source folder. In this step we are going to build visualizations based on the data set we’ve built so far. In this post you will see how easy Read more about Be Fitbit BI Developer in Few Steps: Step 3 Visualization[…]
In the first step you’ve learned how to manipulate and mash up the data with few changes in Power Query M script. In spite of Power BI Desktop not being able to recognize your CSV file correctly because of the header row, you managed to write script and fetch data as you required. However this Read more about Be Fitbit BI Developer in Few Steps: Step 2 Loop Through All CSV Files[…]
Power BI made things really easy, it isn’t hard to build dashboards and data analysis on almost any types of data sources. Previously in other sections of the online book; Power BI from Rookie to Rockstar I’ve mentioned few data sources and ways of connecting to them. In this post I like to show you Read more about Be Fitbit BI Developer in Few Steps: First Step Get Data from CSV[…]
If you’ve read my previous articles about Power BI, you know that Power BI has five main components: Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Q&A, and Power Map. So far all of these components were now supported in PowerBI.com website as part of your Power BI solution except Power Map! Power Map was the Read more about Power BI Says Hi to 3D Maps[…]
SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0 is available, and some of you already played with it. There are great set of new features for BI in 2016 in all areas; SSIS, MDS, SSRS, and SSAS. However there are some features which are part of Database Engine but still relates to BI and Data Warehousing. Temporal Tables Read more about Temporal Tables: A New Method for Slowly Changing Dimension[…]
PASS Summit 2015 session evaluation has been finalized and published for speakers. I want to take this opportunity to thank you all who evaluated me (either good or bad 🙂 ). I want to thank you because you spent your precious time for me to let me know how I did at the session. It Read more about Thank You! My Precious Session Evaluators[…]
Power BI Desktop comes with new updates today as well, and the best feature in this update (from my point of view) is Live connection to SSAS Multi-Dimensional. This feature is still in preview mode, but it is good to see that Microsoft Power BI team invested on this most wanted request from users. With Read more about Live SSAS Multi-Dimensional Connection from Power BI[…]
SSIS has been used for a while now in the business, and many people worked with SSIS. However their level of working and experience and knowledge of SSIS is not the same. There are people who only touched this tool, as well as people who know SSIS inside-out. As a BI or ETL manager and Read more about Prepare for SSIS Interview[…]