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PASS Summit 2020 Going Virtual
Apparently due to Covid-19, the PASS Summit 2020 will not be live in Houston, TX. This is disappointing but necessary because of circumstances. Many were interested to see the affects of moving the Summit to another city. So,…
Read More »PASS Summit 2020 – Pre-conference Sessions
One of the great features of the PASS Summit is the pre-conference sessions. These are day long sessions on a specific topic. Occurrences are on the Monday and Tuesday of the conference. Monday has nine sessions and Tuesday…
Read More »Power BI – Reviewing Impact
While deploying a Power BI report with a new tab, the following screen appeared: I decided to click on the link View impact and it brought me to my Workspace with another view of the impact the changes…
Read More »Personalize Visual in Power BI
The April release of Power BI Desktop enables end users to change visualization types on a deployed report in the server. This an interesting feature that should turn some heads, but might cause confusion. The product and development…
Read More »Query Store follow up – PASS Performance Marathon
Here are some answers to questions from PASS Performance Marathon presentation on Query Store: An Introduction 1. To turn on/off Query Store, will it impact DB availability? (meaning DB does not need to be offline) No, turning off…
Read More »Analytics – Microsoft Azure
Analytics has taken on a new meaning as far as my insights have been the last 10-20 years. It used to be so simple: take an application, access the data and write a report. This could all be…
Read More »Power BI Pro – Incremental Refresh
Big news!!! Microsoft has listened to the Power BI Pro users and has implemented incremental Refresh. Now, you do not have to have Premium in order to use this feature. Here is Christian Wade’s Microsoft blog – https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/incremental-refresh-is-generally-available/…
Read More »SQLSaturday Baton Rouge BI Edition 2020
The session schedule has been released for the March 7th, 2020 SQLSaturday Baton Rouge BI Edition. It is great we have some wonderful sponsors as well as 24 unique speakers. You can browse the schedule here. The tracks…
Read More »Power BI–Decomposition is here!!!
One of the most used or nicest features of ProClarity (SharePoint PerformancePoint) back in the day, was the Decomposition tree. I am not sure why this is not common in all data visualization tools. Breaking down the data,…
Read More »Power BI Report Server – September 2019 Updates
With every 4-5 months in time, Microsoft releases an updated Power BI Report Server along with a Power BI Desktop to support the server. The new features have already been out to the greater Power BI Service community…
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