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In July, we first announced our plans to support SQL Server Reporting Services reports in Power BI, and later demonstrated this capability at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit. Today, we are …

We are happy to announce on the availability of Power BI Premium Paginated Reports in Power BI Mobile apps.

Paginated reports are reports that can be printed or shared. You can control the report layout exactly. They display all the data in a table, for example, even if the table spans multiple pages.

We are now in the last quarter of the year and, as always, the Power BI team is saving the best for last. We rolled out some of our biggest features in the months of September and October.

We’re excited to announce the availability of two new query histogram distribution charts. One is bucketed by query durations(ms) and the other is by query wait times(ms). Query histogram…

For the past few[1] months I've been telling people that dataflows will be available soon. They're available now[2]. Don't just take my word for it - you can also ask this guy: Or this more famous guy…

Now that dataflows are available in preview, you might be run into problems, and be looking for help or guidance. Please do not ask your questions here. Seriously, asking a question in comments on a b…

One of the exciting new preview capabilities in the October 2018 release of Power BI Desktop is support for data profiling in the Power Query editor. Having per-column data profile information availab…

By now you probably know that the Microsoft Business Applications Group (BAG) publishes its upcoming plans in its release notes online: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-n…

If you've come to this blog to learn more about Power BI dataflows, here are all of the posts I've published to date, in the order they're intended to be read. First of all, here is a set of resources…

If you've ever built an enterprise data warehouse or large-scale business intelligence solution, you understand the effort that goes into building the ETL / data preparation subsystem. Tools like SQL S…

Power BI dataflows, a spectacular Power BI update

Microsoft recently released a new feature in Power BI called “Dataflows”. You may have seen it pop up in a recent release of Power BI Desktop under Home\Get Data\Power BI Dataflows (beta) as shown…

Last week I was trying to embed a Power BI report into a SharePoint online page. I wanted users in my organization with a free license to be able to...

In this quick post you learn how to enable Dataflows in Power BI Service under a Premium Capacity.

We are pleased to announce that the ability to export your Power BI reports to PowerPoint is now generally available

I am happy to announce that Custom and Certified Connectors in Power BI are now generally available!OverviewAfter delivering the Power BI extensibility framework, our incredible community has…

Here is my weekly Power BI related round up, I hope that you find this information relevant and keeps you up to date with everything that is happening with regards to Power BI. Power BI – Webinar o…

I had seen some questions in the Power BI Community when asking how to run reports or dashboards in a browser screen so that they cannot see they buttons on the bottom left hand side. In my example…

I have been holding on to a copy of Satya Nadella’s book “Hit Refresh” for quite some time. With all the Power BI goodness, the [...]

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Power BI makes it possible for every employee in an organization to make better decisions bas…

This simple and brief article is about Incremental Refresh setup in Power BI. By the end of this article, you will know more about incremental refresh, its advantages and setup process. What is incremental refresh? Incremental refresh is a feature in Power BI premium which enables more reliable,...

Dataset size and dataset count in memory are now available in the app

Today marks the 20th birthday of Analysis Services: it was released (as OLAP Services) on November 16th 1998. There’s a celebratory blog post and video over on the Power BI blog here: I’m one of th…

Warehousing SharePoint data has been a need that has been with us for a long time. Power BI dataflows finally provide a reliable way to solve this need.

Unlock all of the power of Power Query in Power BI dataflows

We are happy to announce that we have just released the November update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.0.155.1) &…

Since the Eagles game doesn’t start until later, thought I’d put this together for folks. As many of you know, earlier this month we announced a preview of Paginated Reports in Power BI. While fol…