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Data Visualization, Microsoft BI Platform, Self-service BI, SQL Server Pro Magazine, SQL Syndication

Microsoft DataZen Mobile Platform Available to Enterprise Customers for Free

Paul TurleyApril 26, 2015May 4, 2015

Last week Microsoft announced that they had acquired the DataZen mobile BI platform and were adding it to their enterprise BI product suite. This is very exciting news that rounds out the Microsoft BI capabilities of their entire product portfolio. What’s more, is that they plan to make if free for SQL Server Enterprise customers who have Software Assurance agreements.

I presented a session at the PASS Global Summit in 2013 showcasing DataZen called “New York, London, Paris Munich; Everybody’s Talking About Mobile BI”.

SolidQ, SQL Server, SQL Syndication, SQLServerPedia, SSAS Administration, SSAS Design, SSRS Administration, SSRS Design, Tabular Models

SQL Server 2014 Upgrade Sessions on the Microsoft Virtual Academy

Paul TurleyApril 12, 2015May 27, 2015

It was a great honor to be asked to join my associates from SolidQ at the Microsoft Virtual Academy Studios…

Dun & Bradstreet, Microsoft BI Platform

Different Options to Use D&B Cleanse & Match

Paul TurleyApril 3, 2015May 27, 2015

Dun and Bradstreet offers services to cleanse and validate business records from their comprehensive reference database. There are different ways to…

BI Industry, BI Projects, Business Analytics, Microsoft BI Platform

Glossary of Terms Used in Microsoft BI Projects

Paul TurleyMarch 14, 2015May 27, 2015

At the beginning of many new BI projects it can be challenging to get everyone using common terminology and language. …

BI Industry, Microsoft BI Platform, SolidQ, SQL Server, SQL Server Pro Magazine, SQL Syndication

Some Thoughts About Microsoft’s Cloud Platform Roadmap

Paul TurleyFebruary 4, 2015

There have been a lot of changes in and around Microsoft in the past few months. Under the leadership of…

Microsoft BI Platform

New Power BI Designer Tutorial

Paul TurleyFebruary 3, 2015

When the Power BI Designer Preview was released a few months ago I set out to reproduce a solution I…

Data Visualization, Microsoft BI Platform, Power BI, Power View, PowerPivot, Self-service BI, SQL Syndication, SQLServerPedia

Power BI Workshop Videos

Paul TurleyJanuary 28, 2015January 28, 2015

I’ve created a series of five tutorial videos for a set of workshops I’ll be doing at several events this…

Business Analytics, Microsoft BI Platform, Power BI, SQL Syndication, SQLServerPedia

New Power BI Preview and Pricing

Paul TurleyJanuary 27, 2015

Some exciting announcements were made today about the new Power BI cloud-based business analytics service. Today Power BI is an…

BI Projects, SQL Server, SQL Syndication, SQLServerPedia, SSAS Design, Tabular Models

How to resolve connection errors when loading data in SSAS Tabular project

Paul TurleyJanuary 8, 2015January 8, 2015

This post actually applies to both multidimensional (cube) projects and Tabular projects which manage data source connectivity in a similar…

BI Industry, BI Projects, Business Analytics, Power BI, PowerPivot, Self-service BI, SQL Syndication, SQLServerPedia, Tabular Models

Power BI Semantic Model Supports Many-to-Many Relationships

Paul TurleyJanuary 4, 2015January 5, 2015

Is is possible to duplicate the same many-to-many relationship behavior in VertiPaq that we have in SSAS multidimensional? Since Tabular…

BI Industry, Dun & Bradstreet, PASS, SolidQ, SQL Server

Get To Know D&B MVPs and SQL Server MVPs

Paul TurleyDecember 22, 2014December 22, 2014

Last year Dun and Bradstreet, the world’s leading business data authority, recruited leading SQL Server MVPs to help their customers…

BI Industry, Business Analytics, Microsoft BI Platform, Power BI, Power View, Self-service BI, SQL Syndication, SQLServerPedia

New Power BI stand-alone Designer, Dashboards, APIs & iOS App

Paul TurleyDecember 20, 2014December 26, 2014

This week Microsoft announced the availability of Power BI Dashboards and the browser-based dashboard designer. What is it and why…

SQL Server, SSRS Design

Simulating NOT IN and NOT LIKE Functionality In SSRS Filter Expressions – TechNet Wiki Post

Paul TurleyDecember 3, 2014December 3, 2014

I just finished reviewing the November entries in the TechNet Wiki Guru competition and was quite impressed with the submission…

SQL Server, SQL Syndication, SSRS Design

Drill-through to Details from Reporting Services to Excel

Paul TurleyNovember 30, 2014November 30, 2014

Can an SSRS report be designed to drill-through to an Excel workbook in-context (showing only the same filtered detail data)?…

PASS, SolidQ, SQL Server, SQL Syndication, SQLServerPedia, SSAS Administration, SSAS Design, SSRS Administration, SSRS Design, Tabular Models

SQL Server Upgrade Preconference at PASS Summit 2014

Paul TurleyOctober 21, 2014October 23, 2014

Please join my associates and I for an all-day SQL Server Upgrade workshop on November 3rd

If you are planning an upgrade to a newer version of SQL Server, you won’t want to miss this all-day, preconference workshop.

Join John Martin, Sr. Technology Evangelist from Microsoft, will spend the morning discussing migration planning from SQL Server 2005.

In the afternoon, SolidQ mentors Ron Talmage, Richard Waymire, Jim Miller and Paul Turley will talk about and demonstrate upgrading specific workloads (projects and features) from older product versions to newer product versions. We will introduce the comprehensive SQL Server 2014 Upgrade Whitepaper that we recently wrote for publication by Microsoft.

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