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Boxes and Lines…Er, Whiskers
I had to cut short my last dabbling in distribution post because I had to get to Game 2 of Round 1 of the playoffs between the Vegas Golden Knights and Los Angeles Kings, which was am amazing game with...
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Categorical Variable Relationships
I knew I had a lot to say in this series…and we’re still at the tip of this iceberg with this ninth post in my series that started with Getting Started with Data Analytics in Power BI. For now, Power...
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Numerical Variable Relationships
In the previous post in this series (which began all the way back in February 2018 with Getting Started with Data Analytics in Power BI, I explained how an important part of descriptive analytics is to...
View ArticleRevisiting Dynamic Web.Contents()
Thus far in my series of posts using hockey data to explore the subject of data analytics in Power BI (which began all the way back here), I have been focused on “using” the data, and was generally...
View ArticleHandling JSON in SSIS
I believe the first time I ever learned JSON was a thing in the data world was when I attended SQLSaturday Washington DC in December 2012, but I never encountered it in any client projects. My clients...
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Using SSIS to Retrieve JSON Files
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been wrangling at lot of JSON lately. And, in my spare time, I’ve been wrangling a lot of hockey data, launching a series of posts that began here. In fact,...
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T-SQL JSON Output to Flat File Destination in SSIS
In my last post, I was stymied by a problem in SSIS. My goal was to use a T-SQL statement to generate a set of rows to represent each NHL season since 1917 as JSON and then to store the JSON in a flat...
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Using SSIS to Stage JSON in SQL Server Tables
Last month I started wrangling with JSON in SSIS and discussed how to download JSON files and store them as flat files. Now I want to move that data into staging tables in SQL Server. My general...
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My Two New Power BI Courses at Pluralsight
This year I’ve been busy producing two new courses at Pluralsight covering Power BI from two different perspectives. One course is for the complete novice and the other course is for anyone who wants...
View ArticleConquering the Chaos with Data Governance for Power BI
Many years before Power BI, there was Power Pivot. (Bonus points for you if you remember that back then that it was known as PowerPivot.) I remember attending a Birds of a Feather session at Microsoft...
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