As a consultant, I’m often thrown into new databases and tables with a wide variety of schema variations. One of the challenges that I’ve often come across, is finding a field that belongs to a table or if the field has an alternative name. Another challenge is, even if you’ve familiar with the database, but [...]
This is part 3 of the Getting Started with Power BI series. Power BI is a powerful reporting and dashboarding tool; in which, organizations of all sizes can leverage to tell their data story. This series walks through the creation of building out a social media dashboard. For Part 3, we will briefly touch on [...]
This is part 2 of the Getting Started with Power BI series. Power BI is a powerful reporting and dashboarding tool in which organizations of all sizes can leverage to tell their data story. This series walks through the creation of building out a social media dashboard. Here we look at how to pull and [...]
This is part 1 of the Getting Started with Power BI series. Power BI is a powerful reporting and dashboarding tool; in which, organizations of all sizes can leverage to tell their data story. This series walks through the creation of building out a social media dashboard. Introduction With the advent of SQL Server 2016 [...]