Rajendra Gupta

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How to create a Word Cloud generator in Power BI Desktop

October 11, 2018 by

In this article, we’ll look at how to create a Word cloud generator in Power BI Desktop, including importing data, customization and more.

In my last article, Power BI Desktop Interactive chord diagrams, we learned about customized visualizations in Power BI Desktop. These visualizations are free to install and we can use them with our data set and customize charts as per our requirements.

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How to create and configure the Tree Map Chart in SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services

October 28, 2016 by

In the previous article, in this series, How to create and configure a Sunburst chart in SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services, we have explored new chart types in SQL Server 2016; the Sunburst chart and the Tree Map chart, that are used to display hierarchical data. The Sunburst chart is a way of presenting relational datasets together in a compact form. The Tree Map Chart is also a way of showing hierarchical data.

In this article, we are going to show how to create a Tree Map chart and its comparison with the Sunburst chart.

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Database snapshot in SQL Server

January 28, 2016 by

Database snapshot is a great feature that offers virtual read only consistent database copy. When we create the database snapshot in the live operational database, it takes a database point in time static view and Rollback all uncommitted transactions in the snapshot database so we will not be having any inconsistent data that is yet to be committed. Database snapshot always exists on the Source database server.

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Contained databases in SQL Server

January 12, 2016 by

As we know there are two types of authentication available in SQL Server Windows authentication and SQL authentication. In Windows authentication we use Active directory authentication to connect with SQL Server which makes the most secure authentication method as it can have complexity, group policy configured at AD level applied to all domain servers while in SQL Authentication SQL users are created inside SQL and provided required permissions. The Permissions includes server wide and database wide. The logins can have certain permissions at the database level might be read or write etc.

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