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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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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….
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »Power BI Performance Tuning: Data Model
There are many opportunities for performance tuning in Power BI. The main areas are the data model, visualization pane and the service. Power BI always starts with data. Once the data is modeled, the visualizations can be created….
Read More »Power BI Metrics Has Visual For Reports
At Live!360 last week, I saw Andrew Burst show a 20 minute Fast Track of Power BI Metric. I have not used this since it was renamed from Goals. He showed a Visual for the Desktop. This…
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