Microsoft Data Platform Group Birmingham
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Birmingham, UK
Joined September 2010
Day 19 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Power BI modelling moment: You find 2 active relationships between the same tables. ❓ How does Power BI handle that?
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Day 18 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Visual challenge: Large number of categories ❓ Which chart best reduces clutter? Treemap / Pie / Column / Cards
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Day 17 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 SELECT DISTINCT TOP 3 ElfName FROM Elves ORDER BY YearsExperience DESC; ❓ What does this query return?
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Day 16 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 DAX simplification challenge: IF([NaughtyPoints] > 7, TRUE(), FALSE()) ❓ What’s a cleaner version?
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Day 15 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Modelling puzzle: ❓ What distinguishes a snowflake schema from a star schema?
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Day 14 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Fabric throttling kicks in… ❓ What’s one reason why this may happen?
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Day 13 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 SELECT DATEPART(WEEKDAY, '2025-12-25'); ❓ Which weekday number is Christmas this year?
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Day 12 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Comparing two teams… ❓ Which chart is the worst choice? Pie / Bar / Table / Line
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Day 11 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 DAX teaser: AVERAGEX(VALUES(DimChild[ChildID]), FactGifts[Count]) ❓ What does VALUES() return?
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Day 10 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Naming challenge: 🎄 DimReindeer 🎅 Reindeer_Dimension ❓ Which one fits better naming conventions?
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Day 9 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 SQL time: SELECT REPLACE('ho-ho-ho','-',''); ❓ What’s the output?
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Day 8 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 You have fact tables at different granularities❓ Which modelling design pattern could help?
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Day 7 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Your totals disappear in Power BI when using a slicer… ❓ Which function restores them? A) REMOVEFILTERS B) SUMX C) HASONEVALUE
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Day 6 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Elves WHERE HatColour IN ('Red','Green','Green'); ❓ How many times is “Green” evaluated?
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Day 5 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Visualisation poll: Dataset = toy production over 12 months ❓ Which visual would you use? Line / Bar / Area / Scatter?
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🎄 We’re live in 1 hour! Grab a cuppa ☕ and join us for our final 2025 meetup with Qays Aldaoud, deep-diving into Fabric capacity & throttling. See you soon!⬇️ 🔗 https://t.co/8xP5E1etlo
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A tree-mendous thank you to Qays Aldaoud for today’s brilliant session on Fabric’s Capacity Management and Throttling Policies! What a perfect way to end a year filled with growth, learning, and community cheer! 🎄💡
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Day 4 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 DAX challenge of the day: Total Gifts := CALCULATE(SUM(FactGifts[Count]), ALL(DimChild)) ❓ What does ALL() remove here?
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Day 3 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Schema guessing time 👀 Table: Deliveries Columns: ToyID, Region, DeliveredAt ❓ What might this dataset represent?
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⛄ Tomorrow’s the day! Join us at 13:00 GMT for a brilliant session with Microsoft’s Qays Aldaoud as he walks us through Fabric’s Capacity Management & Throttling Policies. Final meetup of 2025, let's finish it strong! 🔗
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**Microsoft Data Platform Group Birmingham** **Thursday 4th December at 13:00 GMT** **Speaker:** Qays Aldaoud **About:** Qays is a Senior Support Escalation Engineer at
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