Business intelligence from the project side: reporting and dashboard platforms, data modelling, semantic layers, ETL and the lessons learned along the way.
Integration catalog is easy to work with and the environments feature is as well very convenient. In SQL Server management Studio, there are a lot of features available to administrate your SQL Server instances, but some are missing that can be very useful. You have the possibility to move an SSISDB environment but this is only possible in another folder…
In the case you have the following configuration and requirements Your Power BI, paginated mobile KPI reports are published on your on premise Power BI Report Server (Named i.e. SRV-PBIRS), their data sources is an Analysis Services located on another server (Named i.e. SRV-SSASTAB\INST01, INST01 being the named instance) and you want to track/monitor who is accessing the data on…
Power BI 5 top custom visuals The development of Power BI itself is fast. But, the means to represent data is too. I mean there are constantly new Power BI custom visuals developed by the community and Microsoft. You can develop your own custom visuals and publish them on the marketplace for your organization or the whole community. Tips :…
Optimizing Multi-Billion Row Tables in Tabular in 2018 I wanted to attend the session moderated by Marco Russo to see his approach of optimizing performance in Tabular model The first thing to understand is how the data is stored and organized in a Tabular model. It is of course using the xVelocity in-memory capabilities with the Vertipac column storage…
The Microsoft data platform is evolving The third day began with the Keynote help by Rohan Kumar the Corporate Vice President of Azure Data by Microsoft The main message was “Hybrid data platform is the way for the future” and Microsoft is working in this direction. The use of AI and analytic to transform the customer business is also a…
Designing Modern Data and Analytic Solution in Azure After having explained the pros and cons of Azure and the decision drivers for going to an Azure Architecture, some interesting messages were delivered like the decoupling of the storage and compute aspect on Azure, even if some of services still combine both. Another message that we all know but is essential…
By Franck Pachot . With this trend of CQRS architectures where the transactions are streamed to a bunch of heterogenous eventually consistent polyglot-persistence microservices, logical replication and Change Data Capture becomes an important component, already at the architecture design phase. This is good for existing products vendors such as Oracle GoldenGate (which must be licensed even to use only the…
By Franck Pachot . We still see some developers not declaring referential integrity constraints in datawarehouse databases because they think they don’t need it (integrity of data has been validated by the ETL). Here is a small demo I did to show why you need to declare them, and how to do it to avoid any overhead on the ETL.…
By Franck Pachot . Going to multitenant architecture is not a big change. The administration things (DBA, monitoring, backups) connect to the CDB and the application things connect to the PDB. Without the multitenant option, it is still recommended to go to the CDB architecture. The non-CDB is deprecated and the multitenant architecture brings interesting features. People often ask how…
Je n’ai pas encore blogué sur le sujet mais il est temps de le faire. Cette année, aura lieu la première édition francophone des 24h du PASS les 20 et 21 septembre 2016. L’idée est plutôt simple: proposer une série de 24 webinaires gratuits de 10h jusqu’à 22h (heure française) pendant 2 jours. C’est l’occasion de recevoir et d’échanger les dernières informations autour…
A lot of customer’s feedbacks are about difficulties to find easily SQL Server tools. Now, it is easier… 😉 A unified web page for SQL Server Tools The first good news is that Microsoft unified and gathered these tools for SQL Server on a single web page: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238365.aspx As DBA, this page is absolutely to be marked in your browser.…
By Franck Pachot . I was looking at twitter analytics showing my top tweets in November and that puzzled me because tweets with the most ‘impressions’ and ‘engagement’ are related to events that had low audience in real. Any comment is welcome as it can help to understand why some events have low audience. Here it is. I’ve put my…
