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Power BI is constantly evolving – there’s a new version of Power BI Desktop every month, and the Power BI service is updated every week. Many of the new capabilities in Power BI represent gradual refi…

Power BI is constantly evolving - there's a new version of Power BI Desktop every month, and the Power BI service is updated every week. Many of the new capabilities in Power BI represent gradual refi…

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup142 Tech Video: https://guyinacu.be/paginatedtips Sources Introducing Calculation Groups (@marcorus) Customer Stories sessions from MBAS 2019 (@SQLAllFather) Updated(!) Guide To Selecting Between Azure Analysis Services And Power BI Premium (@DaveRuijter) Introduction to Charticulator: Create Custom Visual – Part 1 (@leila_etaati) Announcing Bring Your Own …

If you use dataflows with Power BI Premium, you probably use linked and computed entities. There’s an overview post here, and an example of how to use these tools for data profiling here, but…

We are excited to announce new improvements to Power BI dataflows releasing this month including an enhanced compute engine to drastically improve data refresh times and a new set of dataflow…

This blog post explains how to configure and use the new certified datasets feature that is available in Power BI to enable better use of datasets in Power BI

The Microsoft Power Platform consists of three products: Power BI, PowerApps, and Microsoft Flow. I find customers are confused on the use cases of these products and how they compare to other prod…

Imagine you are the owner of a local restaurant and you’ve had modest success with a marketing coupon campaign in the past. You sent out some coupons through the local mail and ended up noticing an uptick in business over the next few weeks. Now you’re wondering which customers you should target nex...

We’re excited to announce we’ve started to roll-out the Viewer role for the new workspace experience, perfect for users who need to view content within workspaces without the ability to …

This blog post details how to connect to Power BI Premium datasets using Excel. This allows users to directly connect to the Power BI Premium dataset.

With Power BI aggregations, organizations can perform petabyte-scale analytics with instant response times, exploring and analyzing trillions of rows of data and interactively extracting insights on the fly. Aggregations can dramatically reduce the cost of unlocking large datasets for decision making.

When you build a Power BI dataflow, lineage is built in. It's not an added feature - it's a fundamental aspect of how dataflows work. Instead of having an ETL process that performs the data movement a…

It seems like everyone knows about how Power Query in Power BI Desktop lets you use web pages as data sources, and lets you build queries by entering values from the web page. This is probably because…

This month the Power BI dataflows team announced an exciting new capability available in preview for dataflows in workspaces backed by Power BI Premium dedicated capacity[1]. This compute engine build…

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In the last few weeks I've seen a spike in questions related to the integration of Power BI dataflows and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Here's a quick "status check" on the current state of this featu…

This is a short story of how I ruined one of my Power BI Desktop files. Luckily I stored it on SharePoint where I have versioning enabled, so I could restore a working version. In that Power BI rep…

To kick off July, we’ve dropped the latest update to Power BI Report Builder in the download center. It includes, for the first time, the ability to browse your Power BI workspaces and …

As a Power BI service admin, do you frequently need to list all workspaces in your tenant, and all reports, dashboards, and datasets in those workspaces as well? If the answer is yes, you pro…

We’re two weeks post-GA of Paginated Reports in Power BI, and we wanted let you know about several updates we’ve made since then

The viewer role for Power BI App Workspaces is now available! Now, let’s look at Power BI Apps vs. App Workspaces and have a discussion around which is the better way to go for content distribution in…

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup143 Tech Video: https://guyinacu.be/shareddatasets Source Showing only slicer data that have facts…

Let’s take a look at the new shared and certified datasets feature in Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service. This opens up a lot of possibilities and helps to reduce data silos.

I have written a long time ago about sharing a Power BI dataset between reports, in an article written when the feature announced first. Nowadays, if you are in the world of Power BI, you heard a lot …

This blog talks about the recently enabled feature “Multiple data source definitions to the same data source”

By This blog post explains how the REST API can be used to prepare the Power BI Inventory Report. On this inventory report, we can show below items which almost covered all the contents from Power BI.…

Navigating from a Power BI report to an SSRS Paginated report with filters and parameters. This recipe primarily involves Power BI report design techniques. I’m not going to get into the details of…

Last week I was re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP (This is the third year now) and I am so grateful. The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award is a unique program (Learn more about the program here).…

Announcing support for sending refresh failure notifications to others in addition to the dataset owner. This feature enables dataset owners to monitor data refreshes more reliably and more e…

This outlines the new features for July gateway release.