Power BI–Gathering the troops

Power BI is… something beyond a reporting tool. It is hard to visualize its scope from seeing a report. First of all, it is a visualization tool not a reporting tool. The reporting part of Power BI is…

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Power BI Vision

Do you have a vision for a Power BI implementation? Maybe you should. There are a lot of parts and pieces to Power BI. Do you even know what Fabric has to do with Power BI? The start…

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Power BI or Fabric Monitoring

I really like the new Monitoring Hub for the Power BI Service. It is a good morning when all the models are finished and completed successfully, but it is not that good of a day if some are…

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Power BI Performance–Calculated Columns versus New Column in Power Query

Most best practices today call for a new column to be create in Power Query or the source system. No matter where you add a column, it will always take up space in the semantic mode as shown…

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Power BI Updates Dec 2023 Release – Preview Features

There are some new preview features in Power BI Desktop I thought were interesting. First, the On-object editing of visuals have improved significantly. Before I get to that, there is a button on the lower right of the…

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Fabric Persona(s)

With the release of Fabric, the Power BI (Fabric) portal has been updated. In order for a better look and feel, Microsoft has decided to split the areas into Personas. That was so all the artifacts available will…

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Show rows for attribute with No values

There was at a time, an attribute for the x-axis or value in a table to ‘Show rows with no data’. Not sure what Microsoft did with this option, but it is no longer available for some reason….

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Power BI External Tools

I would like to express my appreciation for 3 Power BI External Tools. From a DBA background, you always learn some backdoor queries to monitor a SQL Server system and the infrastructure behind it. Then, someone writes a…

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SQLSaturday Baton Rouge

We are at it again. SQLSaturday in Baton Rouge, LA Saturday July 29th at the LSU Business Education building – SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2023 (#1060). We are first very thankful to the sponsors. They seem to always…

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Power BI: Better CI/CD Integration

Microsoft took a step forward with the latest Desktop release for saving as a project – Power BI Desktop Developer Mode (Preview). This new save option separates data from the model from the report. This is a Preview…

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