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In the first post in this series I showed a simple example of how you can use the FORECAST.ETS function in Excel in combination with the Excel cube functions to do forecasting with Power BI data. I…

In this article, we will discuss how to deal with some common problems when creating reports based on employee attendance sheets. Next, let's take a closer look at the below scenarios. Scenario 1: Clean and extract valid records from attendance sheets Invalid or repeated employee punching behavior ...

Scenario: We usually hear words like words context, filter context when creating measure. Moreover, we can often see it on the DAX Guide website. But what is that? And how can we modify it? What is filter context? The reason why we sometimes cannot get the ideal result when we use a measure with sa...

Use Case - Sometimes there will be a need to extract domain names from given URLs. Hence http://www.microsoft.com should give microsoft. Below are some sample cases and the results expected.   Exclusion - Subdomains are excluded from the scope of this. Hence, https://powerbi.microsoft.com which has...

How do you learn a new skill? How do you go from beginner to intermediate to expert… or at least from knowing very little to knowing enough that other people start to think of you as an exper…

A little #PowerBI tip - want to get a list of columns in a table? Great for documentation!Run the following #DAX query in DAX Studio or Tabular Editor 3. Preface your tablename with '$' and ignore …

Video by: Reid Havens Learn how to add borders to object groups without using any additional objects or having to customize the page background ! This optimized technique insures that there is zero performance cost when loading the report page! RELATED CONTENT 🔗 Button Shadow

Welcome to the April 2022 update. We are excited to announce New format pane and Power BI Goals updates, tooltips drill actions support for more build-in visuals, error bars for clustered column and bar charts preview feature, general availability of Dynamic M query parameters. There is more to explore, please continue to read on.

We recently discussed an issue related to the Dictionary size reported by Bravo for Power BI that, in reality, references the behavior of VertiPaq Analyzer,

Join Bernat Agulló and I as he shows you how to level up your skills in Tabular Editor ! He'll spend time showing you how to use C# scripts and macros to create calculation groups , diagnose and optimize your model , and much more! Plus learn how to leverage Visual Studio to cr

Join Business Applications MVP Anton Robbins as he takes you through a guided journey of the things you MUST know before you Flow.

In this session, Daniel will introduce you to the Vega-Lite language via Deneb - a custom visual for Power BI.

The ability to create a composite model on top of a Power BI dataset or an Azure Analysis Services model is in preview since December 2020. Since then, we have seen great adoption of this feature and have received great feedback that allowed us to make it even better! The team has been hard at work readying the feature for general availability, and although we are not announcing that today, we have great news to share regarding permissions.

This article provides examples of navigating from a model-driven app page using the client API to a custom page.

We’re excited to announce the public release of new thin report capabilities for Power BI Documenter. According to early users, these new capabilities are helping to reduce the time spen…

Azure Data Factory V2 allows developers to branch and chain activities together in a pipeline. We define dependencies between activities as well as their their dependency conditions. Dependency con…

Best practice for structuring your Azure Data Factory? Hello friends, this post and my next few posts have been born out of a community talk I’ve delivered a couple of times now at various co…

A live demo failed, so here's a recorded video on how to handle schema drift in Azure Data Factory, using the Mapping Data Flows feature :)

Which feature should you use to transform data in Azure Data Factory? Find your answer by comparing Mapping and Wrangling Data Flows.

Learn the supported connectors in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics pipelines.

Below is a method to use in ADF’s Mapping Data Flows to reduce the data stream in your data flows to only include distinct rows. This sample is available as a pipeline template here. Choose y…

Here is a quick walk-through on how to use Azure Data Factory’s new Data Flow feature (limited preview) to build Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) ETL patterns. The Data Flow feature in ADF is …

I have been putting together a series of posts and videos around building SCD Type 1 and Type 2 using Mapping Data Flows with Azure Data Factory. In this latest post, I’m going to walk throug…

Learn how to copy and transform data in Dynamics 365 (Microsoft Dataverse) or Dynamics CRM using Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse Analytics.