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It's time to free your Power BI data model! We freed up 83%!?! | Guy in a Cube
We reduced a Power BI dataset size by 83% by doing one simple thing. It’s time to get serious about your data model! Download Sample
Getting the correct Date Format to be displayed in the Power BI Service - Reporting/Analytics Made easy with FourMoo and Power BI
If your date is not being displayed correctly in the Power BI Service you will need to make some changes to your Operating System to view them correctly.
How do you get a REFRESH DATE in your Power BI report??? | Guy in a Cube
Have you wondered how to get a refresh date in your Power BI report? Adam looks at an easy way to do that with a little Power Query.
How you can incrementally refresh any Power BI data source (This example is a CSV File)
There is now a way to incrementally refresh any Power BI data source using a combination of a SQL Server database and a function.
Power BI FAQ
Power BI has become hugely popular and I find common questions about functionality and features, so I thought I would put in this blog some of those questions with answers: What is the best way to …
How to Improve Power BI Performance - Part II
Part Two of a Power BI Performance series, with this post focused on the performance of your visuals, featuring the Power BI Performance Analyzer View.
Automate on-demand Dataset Refresh in Power BI - Self Service BI
PBIDS – Power BI Data Sources Files
Power BI Icon The great thing about Power BI is the monthly updates and how much Microsoft are churning out features, updates, and all sorts of cool stuff. The worst thing about Power BI, is trying…
Chris Webb's BI Blog: Optimising The Performance Of Power Query Merges In Power BI, Part 4: Table.Join And Other Join Algorithms
In the previous post in this series I showed how you can use the Table.Join function and the SortMerge algorithm to get much better performance for merge operations in Power Query – but only …
Chris Webb's BI Blog: Optimising The Performance Of Power Query Merges In Power BI, Part 3: Table.Join And SortMerge
In the last two posts in this series I showed how removing columns from the tables used in a Power Query merge operation can improve refresh performance. In this post I’ll show you a differen…
Phil Seamark on DAX
I received feedback on my recent blog post on single-column fusion asking about a curious syntax used in the solution. I promised I would do a deeper dive on why it works in my next blog, so here it …
Model Auto Build
I'd like to share with you an open source tool and framework I built that dynamically creates a tabular model based on an Excel template. Currently, there is no standard framework people use when …
New way of getting apps
We’re thrilled to introduce a new look for getting apps! As of today, getting an app from your organization or from the AppSource marketplace has never been easier!
On-premises data gateway June 2020 update is now available
June release of gateway
Power BI Desktop June 2020 Feature Summary
We have great updates this release! We’re super excited to announce this month that several features are now generally available: automatic page refresh, the hierarchy slicer, the modern ribbon, and AI insights are now generally available. On top of this, we have several new features and updates that will really improve your reporting: many enhancements to mobile layout authoring, visual updates and more! Check out the full blog to learn more about all the updates and enhancements.
Service Principal access to dedicated capacity XMLA endpoint
This article provides a step-by-step instruction on how to enable Service Principal (SP) access to a Power BI workspace in dedicated capacity (Power BI Premium or embedded/A sku).In the following, I …
The new Tests feature in Power Apps
Test Studio is the place where you can create your tests.

Debug Power Apps with Monitor
Quite a while ago in 2018 I wrote about how to debug Power Apps. Then we still had to go through development steps just to understand what was happening in

Drillthrough on All Columns and Measures in Power BI
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="87345" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text]Here’s a quick Power BI tip for you: Setting up drillthrough so that it never breaks! What […]
Power BI Governance – New functionality? Govern the implementation in phases
The Power BI team releases many new features in every monthly release, which is an amazing achievement to make it happen every time. Having all this new functionality on your fingertips is a great …
#PowerBI Status with #PowerAutomate Refresh all in one #PowerApp
From the day Microsoft made the "PowerBI - Refresh a dataset" Power Automate connector available, and having seen this video by GuyInACube https://guyinacube.com/2019/10/24/use-microsoft-flow-and-other-options-to-refresh...

Data Visualization, Context, and Domain Expertise
I recently posted a graph to twitter and asked people to explain it. Let’s look at the graph. Chart from Fitbit showing my step count from April 1 through May 23. The graph is from Fitbit. It…
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How to Be Alerted When Power BI Tenant Settings Change
This post discusses two methods of receiving an alert when a tenant setting has changed in the Power BI Service: one using Cloud App Security, and the other using the M365 Security & Compliance Center.
Power Query M Primer (Part 18): Type System III – Custom Types
How to show the sum of non-selected categories grouped together as “Other” category in visuals
I recently came across an interesting problem regarding how you can show the sum of values of certain selected categories as separate bars in a bar chart – but with the sum of all the non-sel…
Dynamic page navigation and drillthrough
How to set up dynamic page navigation and drillthrough in Power BI.
#PowerBI Bookmarks vs Page Navigation
Power BI Bookmarks, the secret behind many sleek reports, It revolutionised the entire PBI Report design approach. Initially, Bookmarks were portrayed more as some saved views, which can be used…
Demystifying the Power BI XMLA Endpoint
Using the XMLA endpoint, the Power BI Premium service now includes the capabilities of SQL Server Analysis & Azure Analysis Services combined with newer data modeling capabilities of Power BI. …