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I recently ran into this issue with SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.5 where I was getting the error – Msg 3628, Level 16, State 1, Line 4 The Database Engine received a floating point exception from the operating system while processing a user request. Try the transaction again. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator. It turned out that this would happen whenever I ran a query that joined In-Memory tables with disk based tables and the result ended up with no rows returned. Here is how trace flag 1254 fixes SQL Server Msg 3628 floating point exceptions.

Welcome to Episode 10 of my Power BI Best Practices Series. In today’s episode, I will show you how to include a report support tab in your Power BI report. This tab helps your users see where the data comes from. Also, here you can include your contact information, so the users of your report will know how to reach you if they have questions.
A report support tab is not mandatory. However, this is one of the developers’ best practices and the way to show some respect to the other users working with your report.

PerdidoOnline, a Puerto Rico based startup came up with an idea to help the unfortunate among us who lose our belongings wherever we go. Our client wanted to develop a locator and tracking solution t that will substitute the lost and found offices all over the world and save the users from worrying about losing their property. Read more to learn how DB Best turned this idea into reality.

When converting Oracle database code to Microsoft SQL Server, I often face the problem of correctly mapping Oracle data types to SQL Server data types. I regularly use SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) to automate Oracle database code conversion to SQL Server. However, SSMA’s default data type mapping for Oracle procedure and function parameters uses the maximum possible size for each specific data type to prevent data loss. This approach causes unintended consequences with application code.

Welcome to Episode 9 of my Power BI Best Practices Series. In today’s episode, I will show you how you can create themes in your Power BI report and allow for more branding experience.
Power BI themes allow for brighter visualizations, as well as customizing and standardizing your reports. You can select one of the predefined themes, import an existing theme, pick up a theme from the gallery or even create a new theme.

Software development is a complex process that consists of multiple stages. Progressing through these stages transforms the software from concept and a basic visualization to the actual product with a state-of-the-art interface and competitive functionality. At DB Best we utilize 7 application development stages described on our dedicated landing page. The purpose of this post is to stress the importance of the testing stage as an essential element for product quality. So here we will share the fundamentals of our quality assurance […]

Welcome to Episode 8 of my Power BI Best Practices Series. In today’s episode, I will show you how you can create drillthrough pages in your report.
Drillthrough pages allow for your users to navigate to different pages within your report to expore the details of the visuals that they choose. For example, you can create a drillthrough filter in Power BI based on the specific entity.

Managing customer’s SQL Server applications, we discovered a significant performance decrease related to query execution time. We figured out that the reason for that was the execution of a script, which checks the existence of database objects before updating them. Initially, the developers created this script to emulate the behavior of the CREATE OR REPLACE statement from many other database platforms.
We solved the performance issue by replacing the original script with a new code snippet.

In our second Amazon QuickSight introduction blog post we will go through the basic steps in building a dashboard. These steps include importing a CSV data set, creating calculated fields and data analysis. The data being analyzed is in regards to non–local employee travel which is a public access data set and the source of the data is data.gov. We utilized the data set of employee travel data (non-local) of Montgomery County of Maryland. This data set gives insights into […]

Welcome to Episode 7 of my Power BI Best Practices Series. In today’s episode, I will show you how to align your visuals to make users happy with the content they see.