Infrastructure at your Service
In the case you have the following configuration and requirements Your Power BI, paginated mobile KPI reports are published on your on premise Power BI Report Server (Named i.e. SRV-PBIRS), their data sources is an Analysis Services located on another server (Named i.e. SRV-SSASTAB\INST01, INST01 being the named instance) and you want to track/monitor who is accessing the data on Analysis Services or you have row level security constraints. In such case, if you have…
Power BI 5 top custom visuals The development of Power BI itself is fast. But, the means to represent data is too. I mean there are constantly new Power BI custom visuals developed by the community and Microsoft. You can develop your own custom visuals and publish them on the marketplace for your organization or the whole community. Tips : check if the visuals are certified, meaning they have been tested on the different Power…
Optimizing Multi-Billion Row Tables in Tabular in 2018 I wanted to attend the session moderated by Marco Russo to see his approach of optimizing performance in Tabular model The first thing to understand is how the data is stored and organized in a Tabular model. It is of course using the xVelocity in-memory capabilities with the Vertipac column storage layout engine. It organizes the data, compressing it by column, in combination with a dictionary…
The Microsoft data platform is evolving The third day began with the Keynote help by Rohan Kumar the Corporate Vice President of Azure Data by Microsoft The main message was “Hybrid data platform is the way for the future” and Microsoft is working in this direction. The use of AI and analytic to transform the customer business is also a key driver for the Microsoft data platform, which is building to enable this easily. Rohan…
Designing Modern Data and Analytic Solution in Azure After having explained the pros and cons of Azure and the decision drivers for going to an Azure Architecture, some interesting messages were delivered like the decoupling of the storage and compute aspect on Azure, even if some of services still combine both. Another message that we all know but is essential to remind on a regular basis is that cost control is an important aspect. Developers…
By Franck Pachot . With this trend of CQRS architectures where the transactions are streamed to a bunch of heterogenous eventually consistent polyglot-persistence microservices, logical replication and Change Data Capture becomes an important component, already at the architecture design phase. This is good for existing products vendors such as Oracle GoldenGate (which must be licensed even to use only the CDC part in the Oracle Database as Streams is going to be desupported) or Dbvisit…
By Franck Pachot . We still see some developers not declaring referential integrity constraints in datawarehouse databases because they think they don’t need it (integrity of data has been validated by the ETL). Here is a small demo I did to show why you need to declare them, and how to do it to avoid any overhead on the ETL.
By Franck Pachot . Going to multitenant architecture is not a big change. The administration things (DBA, monitoring, backups) connect to the CDB and the application things connect to the PDB. Without the multitenant option, it is still recommended to go to the CDB architecture. The non-CDB is deprecated and the multitenant architecture brings interesting features. People often ask how to name the CDB and the PDB, especially when they have naming rules or policies…
Je n’ai pas encore blogué sur le sujet mais il est temps de le faire. Cette année, aura lieu la première édition francophone des 24h du PASS les 20 et 21 septembre 2016. L’idée est plutôt simple: proposer une série de 24 webinaires gratuits de 10h jusqu’à 22h (heure française) pendant 2 jours. C’est l’occasion de recevoir et d’échanger les dernières informations autour de l’administration et du développement des bases de données, des nouvelles tendances côté Business Intelligence…
A lot of customer’s feedbacks are about difficulties to find easily SQL Server tools. Now, it is easier… A unified web page for SQL Server Tools The first good news is that Microsoft unified and gathered these tools for SQL Server on a single web page: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238365.aspx As DBA, this page is absolutely to be marked in your browser. The two major tools, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and SQL Server Data Tool (SSDT), are…
