Category SSAS

Allowing non-domain admins to configure Kerberos Constrained Delegation.

As you are probably aware of, configuring constrained delegation requires some steps that involve domain admin permissions. In many larger organizations where there is a clear separation of duties this is can be problem since the engineers and developers need to specify what type of delegation need to be configured, and domain admins need to […]

SQL Nexus Call for speakers is live

Nexus noun – “That which unites or binds”         After several months of work with a team of great people and companies: -Kenneth M. Nielsen (b|t) -Mark Broadbent (b|t) –ASAP design –Funky.biz –Microsoft –bloodyuseful We have the honour to launch the call for speakers for the next generation data platform conference in Copenhagen. The […]

SQL Server 2016 CTP2 now available

The official Community Technical Preview 2 (CTP2) release build for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is available for public download here. One week ahead of schedule ! Any feedback is greatly valued and can be submitted here. Enjoy !!

Power BI Preview is now globally available

As of today Power BI dashboards are available in 140 markets worldwide. The announcement was made earlier today at the Microsoft Convergence Conference. This mean that we can begin to use Power BI dashboards without having to worry about owning a US tenant or finding creative solutions to be able to demo the great features […]

SQL Rally Nordic 2015

3rd and 4th of March : 2 days of SQL Server conference delivered by some of the best speakers on the planet. 2nd of March : 1 day of pre-conference History Started in 2011 by some of the pioneers of the European SQL Server community : Raoul Illyes and Johan Åhlén from SolidQ the SQL […]

EPISODE 4– From Self Service Cloud BI to Enterprise Ready Cloud BI (Connecting to on premises Analysis Services – tabular)

This is the 4th post in the series about Power BI dashboards. All posts can be found here The previous post about Power BI designer can be found here I probably didn’t do my homework correctly since I wasn’t able to connect to my on-premises tabular instance of SQL Server Analysis Services. So let’s try […]

Episode 2 – Getting your own data in Power BI Dashboards and compromising your existing work !!

This post is the second one in the series about Power BI dashboards which was released a few days ago. Previous post : POWER BI PREVIEW – A JOURNEY – Episode 1 All posts in the series. Today is Christmas Eve and before I put the goose (Yes Mark Broadbent (T|B), we’re having goose) in […]

Deploying Tabular models

1 Introduction The purpose of this document is to document a viable way to deploy tabular models from say development to test to production. The lifecycle of a tabular project can be illustrated as follows : 2 Development All development of tabular models happens with Visual Studio where the developer uses a local instance as […]

Speaking at SQL Saturday Slovenia #356 – SharePoint as a BI platform

In only 10 days it is time for gathering of SQL Family and friends in Ljubjana, Slovenia. I will be presenting a brand new session that I’ve been working on for the last 3 years ! No kidding !! And just to make sure that I’m super fresh, I’ve been given the first morning session. […]

SSAS Basic at SQL Saturday 341 Porto

SSAS Basics pre-conference day I have the immense honor and privilege to have been selected to do a whole day of preconference on thursday October 16th at SQL Saturday Porto – Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida. During this whole day of training I will give a thorough introduction to SQL Server Analysis Services together […]