Building Your First Report and Dashboard in Power BI: A Step-by-Step Guide
Introduction Embark on your Power BI journey by creating a stunning report and dashboard that bring your data to life! In this article, I'll walk you through each step -…
A Guide to Snowflake Data Cloud Platform
Traditional data warehouses faced challenges with storing large volumes of data and providing faster and more efficient analytical queries. Things are changing with modern cloud warehouse solutions where the storage…
A Guide to Azure Synapse Analytics Architecture
Digital transformation is critical in today's age to stay competitive. This requires a powerful data management strategy to oversee data integrity & quality, security, and integration with all different data…
Mastering Power BI – The Ultimate Guide For Beginners
Imagine if Excel, Picasso, and a data wizard had a love child - that’s Power BI. It’s Microsoft’s powerhouse tool for transforming raw data into interactive, visual stories. Whether you’re…
Is it time to move to Azure?
Let's jump on the cool kids' bandwagon and move to the cloud. Seriously, you do not want to be the only one doing backups, patching, and worrying about EOL support…
How to perform a large delete operation
Deleting data from your production databases can be tricky. You can either choose TRUNCATE or DELETE statements to suit your need. Here in this blog, I will focus more on…
How To Tune SSRS Reports?
Let us not get into a discussion of why we are still talking about SSRS here and not some other fancy BI technologies like Power BI, Tableau, etc. I like…
Beyond Query Tuning
Writing efficient queries following best practices is a sign of a good database developer. However, for it to perform at the intended level there are more knobs to turn. Let…
Query Tuning – Best Practices
In my last post, I talked about how I measure query performances. Let's talk about some of the best practices around query design so that we do not have to…
How to measure query performance
One of your production queries out of nowhere started to run slow and users aren’t happy. Application takes forever to load its screen because of course, the query retrieving data…