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Relationship - Document and Track changes in your Tabular Model
ObjectiveExtract the metadata from a tabular model using a PowerShell script and SQL Server 2016. In this section, we are going to extract the list of Tabular relationships and their corresponding...
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Perspective - Document and Track changes in your Tabular Model
ObjectiveExtract the metadata from a tabular model using a PowerShell script and SQL Server 2016. In this section, we are going to extract the list of Tabular perspectives and their corresponding...
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Perspective Table - Document and Track changes in your Tabular Model
ObjectiveExtract the metadata from a tabular model using a PowerShell script and SQL Server 2016. In this section, we are going to extract the list of Tabular perspective tables and their corresponding...
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Perspective Column - Document and Track changes in your Tabular Model
ObjectiveExtract the metadata from a tabular model using a PowerShell script and SQL Server 2016. In this section, we are going to extract the list of Tabular perspective columns and their...
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Perspective Hierarchy - Document and Track changes in your Tabular Model
ObjectiveExtract the metadata from a tabular model using a PowerShell script and SQL Server 2016. In this section, we are going to extract the list of Tabular perspective hierarchies and their...
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Creating SSIS Package Components and Features Programmatically using .NET
Problem StatementThis might sound strange, but I am writing about a subject that has been around since 2005. However, since then, the objects within SSIS 2016 have changed and I recently had a customer...
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Partition - Document and Track changes in your Tabular Model
ObjectiveExtract the metadata from a tabular model using a PowerShell script and SQL Server 2016. In this section, we are going to extract the list of Tabular partitions and their corresponding...
View ArticleOn Premises Enterprise BI Architecture & Design from a bird's-eye view.
ObjectiveOver the years I have been asked by many people how I design an enterprise level BI from scratch. They're looking to learn what approaches I take to make my design perform at a high level of...
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Legacy BI Design - On Premises Enterprise BI Architecture & Design from a...
ObjectiveIt's always good to know the history of everything, including the history of BI, how it started, how it changed and transformed in to what it is today. Did you know that the word BI was born...
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Today's BI Design - On Premises Enterprise BI Architecture & Design from a...
Today's Enterprise BI ArchitectureA good BI enterprise design must be done as though the application will be for sale. It should be able to accommodate any input data, or be as flexible as required for...
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111 Approach - On Premises Enterprise BI Architecture & Design from a...
111 Approach (One, One, One, Approach)How fast can the data be provided and with what level of accuracy? What's the best approach?The best approach is referred to as the 111 Approach. This approach...
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HashByte Creator Tool
Problem StatementI have more than 100 SQL tables that needs to have a "checksum" field something like HashByte MD5, the major problem is that the number of fields keep on changing on the fly and I need...
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List of BI Tools - On Premises Enterprise BI Architecture & Design from a...
List of BI ToolsThere are a variety of BI tools that you need to design yourself. These tools are mechanisms that are required in any Enterprise BI environment.See the overall objective and complete...
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Looping Through Flat Files using SSIS 2016
ObjectiveYes I know I know, ……… the “Looping through CSV or text files” is very very very old subject and it may have 100s of solutions, but I had to blog about it again because looping through CSV or...
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Looping Through Excel (97-2003) Files And Sheets using SSIS 2016
ObjectiveAfter writing an article about “LoopingThrough Flat Files using SSIS 2016” I decided to blog about the same subject but this time related to excel, again I have to say yes it is a very old...
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From: IoTHub To: Power BI Via: Stream Analytics
From: IoTHubTo:Power BIVia: Stream Analytics April the 23rd, 2018 I will be presenting and sponsoring an event at Microsoft Canada (Downtown Toronto) .Details of the sponsor’s presentation:...
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Presentation at Microsoft Canada on "Azure IoT Hub"
Azure IoT Hub May the 3rd, 2018 I will be presenting an event at Microsoft Canada (1950 Meadowvale blvd, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) .Details of the Presentation: “From: IoTHub To:...
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Azure Stream Analytics Presentation
Azure Stream Analytics Job May the 31st, 2018 I will be presenting an event at Microsoft Canada (1950 Meadowvale blvd, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) .Details of the Presentation: “Azure...
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Azure Security Defenses you ought to know AND Hand-On session on Azure Data...
Azure Security Defenses you ought to know AND Hand-On session on Azure Data Factory Please join me (Nik- Shahriar Nikkhah) and Deepack Kaushik on new webinar on “Azure Security Strategies you...
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Hand-On Azure Data Factory
Hand-On Azure Data Factory Please join me (Nik- Shahriar Nikkhah) on a new webinar with "Azure Data Factory”. Thursday, Jan 31, 2019 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM EST (Toronto, Canada Time) Price: Free of...
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Azure Databricks, Excel custom functions programming, Azure Data Factory,...
Azure Databricks, Excel custom functions programming, Azure Data Factory, Azure Logic AppsPlease Join me and Niesh Sha and Heather Grandy for a presentation at Microsoft Toronto...
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Azure IOT and Azure Defenses: Coast 2 Coast Tour
Azure IoT And Azure Defenses Coast 2 Coast TourJoin me and Deepak for ‘ Azure IOT and Azure Defenses: Coast 2 Coast Tour’ . We will be atSaskatoon on May 3rd .Join us for the great sessions on ‘IOT and...
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Leveraging IoT Device in Hydroelectric, Wind Power, Transformers, Heat...
“Azure IOT Coast 2 Coast” First TourHi Join me (Nik) and Deepak for two presentation focusing on …1- Leveraging IoT Device in Hydroelectric, Wind Power, Transformers, Heat Recovery & Power...
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Extracting Data from SQL to CSV files using SSIS and PowerShell 7.x
ObjectiveI decided to combine SSIS and PowerShell 7.0 to create one new ETL SSIS package that transfers CSV files to SQL server using a configuration table, the objective is to create a config table...
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Extracting Data from CSV file to SQL Server using Azure Blob Storage and...
ObjectiveOne of the general ETL practice that is needed in the cloud is to inject data from a CSV file to a SQL the file will be within Azure Blob Storage and the destination SQL is a Azure SQL Server....
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