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Include Relationship columns – Power BI
I always wondered if there was a way to exclude the related table when importing into a Power BI Dataset. Most models I work on have dimension and fact tables with foreign keys. After importing into PowerQuery, there…
Read More »Updates – Power BI Goals
The idea of creating scorecards can be accomplished with using Goals in Power BI Service. Goals allow the tracking progress in a business or event through the internet and even a mobile app. Upper management can have a…
Read More »Power BI Deployment Pipeline: Production Workspace already exists
I was recently asked how do you use the Deployment Pipelines for Dev/Test/Prod if you already have a production workspace. What happened to this user when they created the Deployment Pipeline, the existing workspace was select for Development…
Read More »Power BI Goals
Another great feature (in preview) for Power BI. It is like a scorecard with functionality to help someone track progress. Whether it be sales goals or research successes, power BI goals can help. I really like the…
Read More »Power BI Summit April 19-32 (Virtual)
The next virtual summit coming up is April 19-23, 2021. It is called Power BI Summit and is hosted by Radacad. There are MVPs, Microsoft employees and Power BI experts from all around the world sharing almost every…
Read More »Power BI XMLA Endpoint Read/Write GA
On Jan 5th, it was announced that Power BI Premium supports Read/Write XMLA endpoints is now GA. This allows tools to connect to and manage the analysis services engine in Power BI Premium. This goes a long way…
Read More »Power BI Deployment Pipelines
Not too long ago, Microsoft release a deployment pipeline for Power BI. This is really exciting stuff and goes along with the trend in the DevOps world. What is nice to, is was built from the ground…
Read More »Power BI Premium Per User License
Microsoft announced the ability to have a Per User license for Power BI Premium. It does not look like it is available, yet, but here are some of the highlights of changes from Pro license. 1. Increased capacity…
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…
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