When developing Power BI models, we don’t always want to refresh the entire dataset before we start working with the data. We can speed up the refresh – and therefore our development – by reducing the volume we’re working with. Here we’ll look at a couple of ways to use parameters to adapt production-ready models to reduce […]
Schema drift is an inevitable part of environments where database changes are applied manually. Sometimes it’s dev-ing in production, other times it’s lax change control. Either way you’ve got a problem, and SSDT comparisons may be the solution. In this post I want to look at how using the Schema Compare and Data Compare features […]
For the bicentennial edition of T-SQL Tuesday, Brent has thrown down the topic of “When I’m looking at a query, I bet it’s bad if I see ____.”. I’m expecting the Brits out in force for this game of Blankety Blank. There are some things which terrify me when troubleshooting: Not necessarily in that order. But there’s […]
Andy Brownsword 