Field notes on NEC Housing, DRS, Power BI and getting housing data to make sense.https://www.basedatabi.com/en-gbhttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/taking-on-an-apprentice/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/taking-on-an-apprentice/We've taken on our first apprentice on the new AI and Automation Practitioner standard. Why a micro business invests in people despite the risk, and what it means for local authorities and the housing sector.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/wiki-the-join-nec-never-shows-you/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/wiki-the-join-nec-never-shows-you/NEC has a thousand-plus tables and the joins you need often aren't declared foreign keys. Here's the wiki and join-path finder we built so you stop guessing.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/nec-knowledge-that-walks-out-the-door/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/nec-knowledge-that-walks-out-the-door/The person who knows how your NEC data really works is one resignation away from taking it with them. Here's how we wrote that knowledge down.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/getting-logic-out-of-business-objects/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/getting-logic-out-of-business-objects/Years of report logic sit locked in BusinessObjects files. Migrating off shouldn't mean rebuilding from memory. Here's the extractor that pulls it out.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/power-bi-june-2026/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/power-bi-june-2026/Microsoft's June release leans hard into AI-assisted authoring and finally makes DAX user-defined functions production-ready. Here is the housing-data read on what to switch on, and what can wait.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/rls-survives-a-reorg/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/rls-survives-a-reorg/Most RLS breaks the first time the org chart changes. A pattern that bends with the structure instead of hard-coding it.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/appointment-data-vs-kpi/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/appointment-data-vs-kpi/First-time-fix is a lagging summary. The booking and reschedule trail underneath it is where the operational story actually sits.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/reporting-nobody-trusts/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/reporting-nobody-trusts/Trust in a dashboard is lost in one wrong number and rebuilt slowly. A short field guide to closing the credibility gap.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/first-ref-values-decoded/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/first-ref-values-decoded/The lookup table behind half of NEC reporting, why its codes are not unique across domains, and how that quietly drops rows.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/source-of-truth-is-a-habit/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/source-of-truth-is-a-habit/You do not buy a single source of truth. You maintain one. Why governance beats tooling every time it is tested.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/dax-measures-like-sentences/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/dax-measures-like-sentences/Measures are read far more often than they are written. Naming and structure that let the next analyst follow the logic.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/voids-repairs-and-joins/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/voids-repairs-and-joins/Where the void lifecycle meets the works-order spine, the column that states the link, and why inferring it from dates makes the numbers drift.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.basedatabi.com/blog/joining-drs-to-nec/https://www.basedatabi.com/blog/joining-drs-to-nec/Scheduling data is only useful joined to its cause. The bridge between DRS and NEC, and the keys that make it hold.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT