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Friday, August 4, 2017

bcp error - Invalid column type from bcp client for colid 1 - Solution

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You might be experiencing the following error with bcp when loading text data to SQL Server table; It is possible to see this erro...
Thursday, August 3, 2017

Script for creating DimTime Dimension Table and populating data

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The posts I made on date dimension table ( Script for populating Date Dimension with Financial Year and  Loading Data Script for Snowflak...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

How to reset IDENTITY in Memory-Optimized Tables

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Even though SEQUENCE object is available with much more flexibility, we still use IDENTITY property for adding sequence values to tables, ...
Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Script for populating Date Dimension with Financial Year

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Once I published the code I used for creating date dimension tables and populating data. But it had not handled finance year related date ...
Monday, July 31, 2017

SQL Server bcp error - String data, right truncation

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We generally expect a proper row terminator with files loaded using bcp  and with all accurately defined switches, data should be loaded w...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Power BI supports numeric range slicer now

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This is not something released this month but March 2017. These new capabilities of Power BI Slicer is available but many do not use it be...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Database Normalization - 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, BCNF, 4NF and 5NF with examples

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Normalization is a process of identifying the optimal grouping (relations at the end) for attributes that satisfies data requirements in a...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Power BI Parameters - What are they and when they can be used?

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Microsoft Power BI supports adding parameters for queries and use them with various areas. However, since it has some limitations and cann...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Relational Algebra - Joins - Theta Join, Equijoin, Natural Join, Outer Join, Semijoin

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I wrote a post on Relational Algebra that discusses most of operations related to it. This is the continuation of it and this explains Jo...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Power BI - Scheduled Refresh section is not available in Settings

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Power BI Desktop allows us to import data from files such as CSV and Excel . Once imported, it automatically creates a Model  that can be ...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Power BI - Cannot highlight or pin visuals when grouped with shapes

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Power BI allows us to add shapes like rectangle or oval  for marking specific area, showing covered visuals as they are related and operat...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Naming columns in the View

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How do you name columns returned from your created view? Generally, you do not need to explicitly name them as the names of view-columns  ...
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Dinesh Priyankara
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Dinesh Priyankara (MSc IT) is an MVP – Data Platform (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) in Sri Lanka with 16 years’ experience in various aspects of database technologies including business intelligence. He has done many local and foreign business intelligence implementations and has worked as a subject matter expert on various database and business intelligence related projects. He is the Founder/Principal Architect of dinesQL (Pvt) Ltd and he consults, teaches and runs training programs on data related solutions and subjects.
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