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For Power BI, if your data source does not already have a date dimension table, Microsoft strongly recommends adding one in Power Query M-code. Here we show how to do that for a fiscal year date table.

For Windows PowerShell, adding a security privilege to a user takes more effort than one would expect. Here we show a method with no third party dependencies. Discussion Basically we use PowerShell’s Add-Type cmdlet to add .NET (C#) code which calls a Win32 API function (LsaAddAccountRights) to the script’s context. We then instantiate a wrapper class and call a method which calls the LsaAddAccountRights function (with necessary setup and cleanup).

Topics related to developing Alpine Linux or for Alpine Linux

Modifying packages that are part of the install diskless boot (e.g. on install media), or the parameters that can be accepted by the boot process, is a little more involved than modifying individual packages, especially for netboot images.

Due to an OpenWrt issue, the author needed a version of the ‘mountpoint’ command. Since the author wanted to learn ucode, they coded a version of the command using it.