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…
Read More »SQL Server Analysis Services 2019–New Features
The biggest news as far as I can see about SSAS 2019 is Calculation Groups. This is the long awaited feature, define calculated measures, used by many in Multidimensional Cubes. The new ‘table’ contains the Time intelligence (among…
Read More »Power BI Service–New Look and Feel!!!
These is a new format for viewing dashboards/reports in the Power BI service. Luckily, you have a button to turn it on and off (for now). Figure 1 New Look On/Off button I am glad to have the…
Read More »SQLSaturday Dallas #SQLSatDallas Did A Great Job!!!
The spent Saturday (6/1/2019) at another SQLSaturday. This one in Dallas, TX – #841. Since my session, Execution Plans SQL Server 2017 was the first session of the day, I plan a nice schedule of 5 sessions to…
Read More »Power BI Performance Analyzer
Power BI has a new feature as part of the May release called the Performance Analyzer. The release notes caution that the page might be describing a feature that is not fully released, so this is a ‘look…
Read More »Power BI Read Only XMLA endpoints–Public Preview Premium Users
Microsoft announced the Public Preview in Premium Edition for XMLA endpoints. What does that mean? Not too long from now, you will be able to connect to Data Sets created in Power BI unloaded to the service with…
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