Some of our customers want us to import their data from a standard on-premises or cloud-based (Azure) SQL-database, others want us to import their data from a REST API. If ever, you’ll have to import data from a REST API, you’ll surely encounter some obstacles.
Azure SQL Database serverless is a new compute tier made for single databases. This new model automatically scales the compute based on the actual workload per second. This means that you only have to pay for the compute resources (memory & vCores) you use. But there's more...
In a previous blogpost, we already explained how to make a date table in Power BI with DAX. Besides the dates you can add extra properties for each date: year, month-names, weekday-names,... But what about hours and minutes? In this blog and video, we'll show you how to create time tables in Power BI.
31 december was het zo ver, we zaten aan de radio gekluisterd om de Tijdloze op de voet te volgen. Op plaats 93 noteerden we onze eerste voltreffer en hoe dichter we bij de top 10 kwamen, hoe beter onze voorspelling . Negen van de tien nummers uit de top 10 hadden we voorspeld en drie hiervan hadden de voorspelde ranking.
Waar we vorige jaren begin januari in actie schoten, staken we nu reeds in december de handen uit de mouwen. Aan de hand van een predictieve analyse doen we een poging om De Tijdloze 2019 te voorspellen, niet enkel de top 3 maar de ganse lijst.
Tired of logging on to Azure Data Factory every day and checking the status of your pipeline(s)? In this blog, Data Wizard Wout Cardoen shows you how to develop an automatic email that alerts you when a pipeline fails.
Azure Databricks is a cloud native (Big) Data analytics service, offered as a managed PaaS environment. It’s designed to hide the underlying distributed systems and networking complexity as much as possible from the end user, so you can focus on developing rather than having to stress over infrastructure management.
When I started to jump from DBA to Data Architect, I thought that these roles would diverge further and further until they became two separate roles and functions. The current evolution Microsoft launched proved me wrong though. Enter Azure Synapse Analytics.
Recently our data wizard Thomas Costers was at a customer who created an indexed view, which spanned multiple tables as part of a release. Because you can't disable lock escalation for an indexed view as you can for a table, he went looking for another solution.
In our latest How To video, our BI wizard Frederik Aerts, integrates the data of his Fitbit into Microsoft Power BI. There are different ways to do it... Enjoy!!
Recently I had a customer providing data for a Power BI report in a format that wasn't ideal for reporting purposes. We solved it by using a combination of pivoting and unpivoting columns. This blog post will show you how to do this.
When you create or update statistics (without specifying a sample rate) the sample rate is automatically calculated by SQL Server. If you would want this statistic (or the whole table) to use a Flat sample rate, say 5 percent, then you could specify a persisting sample rate after updating your stats. Read all about it in this blog.
A while ago, our DAX Diviner at The Kingdom of Wizards, Ken Geeraerts, has been interviewed for a whitepaper on Big Data and AI for the company Nimbuz. Download a free copy of the whitepaper "How Big Data and AI can help your business move forward" here.
Stefanie was planning to update her knowledge on Microsoft Azure. After a good night rest, she was ready for this new adventure. She opened up her laptop, turned on the power and immediately stopped and stood up. First things first. Black gold. Now she was ready to learn about Managed Instance.
In the first part of this blog series on SQL Server plan guides, we looked into the basic plan guide setup. In this part we will be taking a closer look at somethings you cannot do as well, as how to add a plan guide to procedures, and how to find queries that are using plan guides.
Working for Kohera is more than a day-to-day job. In fact, it’s a passion that started five years ago. Because it does not always have to be technical, I would like to give you some shop-floor insights and somehow reflect my five years of experience so far.
Plan guides are some strange things, and can be very high risk. This post does not have the intention to get all you fine people to implement plan guides everywhere, it should be one of the last resort options in your toolkit.
Python is a great addition to the Power BI family by providing you the ability to perform quick data transformation or plot cool data visualizations. Our Power BI wizard Ken Faes gives you an introduction in setting up Python in Power BI...