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Recently, I had the opportunity to explore the Databricks SQL extension for VSCode, and I was thoroughly impressed. With its user-friendly interface, robust features, and seamless integration with Databricks, this extension is the ideal solution for querying your Databricks Lakehouse outside of the

What is the "real" Power Platform? Is it just shitty little apps?

Today, as data has become a lifeblood of industry leading firms, competing on analytics has become an unquestioned mantra, and firms have anointed Chief Data Officers to occupy the C-Suite.

Seamless integration of Visual Studio and Tabular Editor means writing code in Visual Studio and getting it right for tabular Editor in just two clicks. This articles explains how to use a repository and script to make the experience of developing c# scripts a breeze.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Data is generated by every click, swipe, and interaction we have online. It is collected by businesses, governments, and organizations to understand their customers, markets, and operations. It is analyzed both manually and automatically by tools, AI algorithms, and models...

This article describes how to optimize a text search operation in DAX. This technique can improve the performance of Power BI reports that use the contains

Discover the benefits of establishing a Centre of Excellence (COE) for data analytics with Azure and Power BI innovation in FSIs.

The new Power Apps drop shadow property for containers makes it easy to your apps look modern and stylish. We don't need to write complex CSS.

Placeholder shapes also known as shimmers appear where the data eventually displays. We can create this effect using the Power Apps Shimmer Control.

On this page you will find documentation on how to use all 13 of the new Power Apps Modern controls for canvas apps.

Power Apps can look amazing if you have a strong understanding of design principles & UI UX skills. Try these 5 Power Apps design tips.

Timesheets are a popular app to make in Power Apps. In this step-by-step tutorial, I'll show you how to build your own timesheets app.

This is the 2nd article in a series about how to build your own timesheets app in Power Apps. The first article focused on creating a timesheet lines feature with the ability to add, edit, delete and save lines. This article will continue the tutorial to include the ability to create new timesheets and submit them for approval.

ABSTRACT 📄 Every Power BI developer has come across business requirements which were impossible or difficult to achieve using the Power BI core visuals. The HTML VizCreator custom visual puts an end to this! Learn from the creator of the visuals that even with little to no HTML knowledge, you can

ABSTRACT 📄 Every Power BI developer has come across business requirements which were impossible or difficult to achieve using the Power BI core visuals. The HTML VizCreator custom visual puts an end to this! Learn from the creator of the visuals that even with little to no HTML knowledge, you can

Through a co-design study, synthesized an engine to construct accessible visualization experiences for screen-reader users.

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This post was authored by Andrey Mirskiy and Diego Fanesi.   Welcome to the first post of our series on how to use Azure Databricks SQL with Power BI. In this article, we will focus on how to connect to a Databricks SQL Warehouse from Power BI and query your Delta Lake to populate your dashboards. T...

Learn how Power BI advanced data model management is about empowering creators with advanced data modeling and publishing capabilities.

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Inspired by Darrens Gosbell’s excellent blog post – Automatically generating measure descriptions for Power BI and Analysis Services with ChatGPT and Tabular Editor – Random Procrastina…

Yesterday I worked on a Power BI report where the client wanted to add vertical bar next to the slicer in order to make the design of the slicers a little bit nicer and also to make the slicers rec…

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Data literacy has become a vital skill for individuals at any organization that wants to leverage data for better decision making and innovation. Data is everywhere, and decisions are often based on data-driven insights. Data Literacy’s Impact As the ability...

Find out how much memory and CPU is used by the Analysis Services engine and the Power Query engine during a dataset refresh in Power BI

In December 2020, we launched the preview of DirectQuery for Power BI Datasets and Analysis Services. Since then, we have worked with many of you to improve on this feature and get it ready for general availability. Today we are announcing that this feature has reached general availability.

This article describes how to use the Group By Columns property to store the slicer selection by using the same column used in a SWITCH function to optimize

I always enjoy it when we get new DAX functions, especially so for the new set of WINDOW Functions recently added. As part of the April 2023 release of Power BI Desktop, we now have a RANK function and the ability to use a measure to control the order within the existing WINDOW function. The … Continue reading DAX Pareto Calculation

Comparing snapshots by state shows how many ids have moved from one state to another between 2 snapshots providing insights on bottlenecks.

This blog post explains how to only load data if there are actual rows in the table. This allows you to save on potential query costs when using Power Query in #PowerBI