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One of our enterprise-level customers reached the Power BI capacity limit on dedicated cloud computing and storage resources. They already owned the Power BI Premium licensing package and didn’t want to spend more money to buy additional resources.
Reaching the resource capacity limit in Power BI may lead to serious consequences. Data models using this service will fail when refreshing through the gateway. The business will not get new data, causing all teams to fall behind on analysis of information.
See how you can address this issue.

Apple and Google set new rules for mobile applications on the App Store and Google Play annually. Even if you are not a developer, as a business person whose business is strongly associated with an application or a mobile platform, you should review them.
Read the blog post to learn more about the restrictions and updates we will face within the app market in 2019.

I recently had a client using SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition on three of their development servers. However, SQL Server 2012 has a developer edition that is specifically designed for development servers. More importantly, our client has free SQL Server 2012 Developer edition licenses as part of the paid SQL Server Standard Editon purchase.
Our customer decided to convert their Standard Edition to the Developer Edition so they could save big bucks. However, the conversion process can be a bit tricky. In this blog post, we will show how you can easily convert SQL Server Standard Edition to the Developer Edition.

A public sector organization from the US faced a problem with an outdated Oracle Forms-based solution. They had thousands of users but couldn’t keep the existing system running at an optimized quality and usability level. Their first option was to create a completely new web-based application to make their Oracle Forms run on the web. However, we at DB Best came up with a second, more cost-effective option that also saved time. We offered to transfer their Oracle Forms to an up-to-date JavaScript code as single-page applications (SPA) running on the web.
Find the details of the DB Best solution in our blog post.

Welcome to the last episode of my Power BI Best Practices Series. In today’s episode, I will show you how to filter your report based on visual level, report level, or page level filters.
Visual level filters allow for filtering only the selected visual. Likewise, page level filters allow for filtering the entire page. And report level filters allow for filtering all tabs together in your entire report.
Read more on our blog and be sure to watch the related video.

One of our customers had their Management Data Warehouse (MDW) running on their production SQL Server 2012 and didn’t know what to do with it. Microsoft had introduced the MDW with SQL Server in 2008. However, there was a bug in SQL Server 2012 that prevented the Query Statistics data collector from working. Rather than trying to fix it, we made the decision to remove it instead.
Removing the MDW from SQL Server running in production is straight forward and requires that you follow the steps described in this blog post.

Welcome to Episode 12 of my Power BI Best Practices Series. In today’s episode, I will show you how and why you should edit your interactions in your visuals. Editing interactions allows for you to apply the filter directly on a visual. Also, you can change the way the filter interacts with different visuals on your page.
Please note that you can not edit interactions if the report was shared with you. Also, by default, drilling one visualization has no impact on the other visualizations on the report page.
Find more details from this blog post.

When migrating Oracle databases to Microsoft SQL Server, the first problem you will face is mapping Oracle schema to SQL Server. You can hardly underestimate the importance of this architecture-level question because the wrong approach will lead to significant efforts in rewriting the code.
Discover the DB Best approach to schema mapping for Oracle to SQL Server migrations.

Welcome to Episode 11 of my Power BI Best Practices Series. In today’s episode, I will show you how and why you should cut unnecessary visuals in your dashboard to allow for better user experience.
Clean reports have a better look and feel. Moreover, they make it easier for the user to understand the information and navigate through the dashboard.
Read the blog post to learn how you can determine, which of the visuals you should remove.

A minimum viable product (MVP) is a development strategy in which a new product is developed with sufficient features to satisfy early users. The final, complete set of features is only designed and developed after considering feedback from the product’s initial users.
For better understanding, we have a great example for you to compare the outcomes of different strategies.