When planning a Power BI solution, how can we plan for scale and growth? Like any technology, Power BI has limits but Power BI can manage a surprising large value of analytic data. We also have too…
The External Tools ribbon is a feature that has been available in Power BI Desktop since the July 2020 release. This feature should be considered essential to anyone who is regularly working in the Power BI space. In this article I recommend my top five External Tools, that I [...]Read More »
2022 PASS Data Community Summit Recap: Power BI Meets Programmability – XMLA, TOM, C#
Thank you to everyone who made it out to PASS Data Community Summit! I have greatly enjoyed meeting so many fellow data nerds and have learned so much from all of you. Speaking in person is always …
Power BI Embedded: Using Row-Level Security for Multilingual Reports
Making multilingual reports in Power BI requires a lot of different elements. Translations can be added to PBIX files to translate column names, visual titles, etc. but these translations will not …
Exploring Microsoft Purview for data governance - Guy in a Cube
You’ve probably heard of Microsoft Purview somewhere. Buck Woody joins Patrick to highlight how Microsoft Purview can help you with data governance. From cataloging to lineage, Purview is a key component for your data strategy! Connect with Buck: https://twitter.com/BuckWoodyMSFT https://www.linkedin.com/in/buckwoody/ Microsoft Purview: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/purview https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/?view=o365-worldwide https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/
Content Endorsement in Power BI, Part 1, The Basics - BI Insight
As you may already know, Power BI is not a report-authoring tool only. Indeed, it is much more than that. Power BI is an all-around data platform supporting many aspects you’d expect from such a platform. You can ingest the data from various data sources, transform it, model it, visualise and share it with others. … Continue reading Content Endorsement in Power BI, Part 1, The Basics
SQLBI+ is our new subscription service to advanced content that support professional model authors who create semantic models for Power BI and Analysis Serv
Learn how to write DAX queries and how to manipulate tables in DAX measures and calculated columns. The DAX language is commonly used to create measures and
Learn the internals of Power BI semantic models created by using VertiPaq, DirectQuery over SQL, and DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Analysis Services
Connect the Power BI Model Documenter to existing data models in the Power BI Service or Analysis Services
Recently, I’ve published a new version of the Model Documenter. With that, version 2.1.0 went live. I always try to keep the FAQ up to date and add sections describing typical questions and u…
How To Have An Automated Power BI Version Control With Power Automate
This article shows you how to set up a flow on Power Automate for creating a version control system to check all Power BI reports (in your organization) every minute in order to find the reports that have been modified, record those modifications in the Change Log, and export/save them as PBIX files.
Mathias has published some demos and demo data on GitHub: https://github.com/pbi-toolsIn this video he shows how to get started with them and what do you have.
Chris Webb's BI Blog: Calling The Power BI REST API From TSQL In Azure SQL DB
Something cool has just been announced for Azure SQL DB: the ability to call a limited number of REST APIs direct from TSQL. The announcement is here: There are code samples here: And guess what, t…
Deneb-Vega data visualization examples - Power of Business Intelligence
Deneb-Vega data visualization examples - Power of Business IntelligencePower of Business IntelligenceBlog by Andrzej Leszkiewicz. Excel VBA and Power BI developer and consultant.Andrzej …