In the June update of the Power BI Desktop there were some really cool features that were added.  I’d encourage you to review the full Power BI blog to see all the June updates.  My favorite of all…

NOTE: If you are the owner of a dataset, add phrasings and synonyms to improve the Q&A results for your customers.Aggregates: total, sum, amount, number, quantity, count, average, most, least, few...

Past releases in power bi have seen new enterprise related capabilities coming out which lets you manage power bi usage within your organisation. Few such feature that came out with Power BI desktop April update is query parameters and template files. In this blog post we will look at how to utilise...

Microsoft today announced that Power BI Embedded will be generally available on July 11, 2016. Power BI Embedded allows application developers to embed fully interactive reports and visualizations in customer-facing apps without the time and expense of having to build their own controls from the ground-up. Microsoft also announced that Power BI publish to web […]

When developing dashboards and reports for a large group of business users you want to make sure you deploy the right content at the right time. In this article we will look at an approach that all…

Update: My Power BI architecture diagram v3 is now available! Head over to here get the latest version! I finally finished putting together version 2 of my Power BI architecture diagram. I previous…

A recurring theme with customers and partners is Power BI data refresh. More specifically, there is some confusion on what refresh scenario requires a Pro version and what can be done with the Free…

I’ve blogged a few times now about how to monitor Power BI query execution times, most recently here, and while using functions like DateTime.FixedLocalNow() is all very well I’ve never been happy …

Do you want to connect to a Power BI Desktop Model from Excel or SSMS? Do you have Power BI Performance issues? Then this article is for you.

What if I told you, there was one key skill, that has set me head and shoulders above the Excel crowd when working with Power Pivot and Power BI? Would you

If you are a person who creates data models or builds Excel workbooks that will be used with Power BI, read on... In Power BI, Q&A can search structured data and choose the right visualization for your question -- that's what makes it a compelling tool to use.

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Today, I found out about a Power BI Q&A feature that enables you to customize the visual appearance of your Q&A results. Treb Gatte shows this feature in a short video, but I would also like to presen…

Regular readers of my blog probably get sick of hearing me rave about the latest new thing in Power BI. This month there is an absolute cracker – Q&A in Power BI Desktop. In case you don’t know, Q&A i…

In this post I show you how to document your SSAS Tabular Model in Power BI without writing DMVs. The tool made Power BI is free to download.

You can now use natural language queries in Power BI Desktop, using Q&A

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Self-Service Power BI Report Template The final task for the dataset designer in sprint 12 is to create a report template (.PBIT file) that will allow users to build their own reports in Power BI D…

Good morning, Power BI Developer Let’s say you’re a BI developer within a corporate BI team and you’ve been assigned to a Power BI project. More specifically, you’re respons…

Natural language query was probably the most unused feature in Power BI, until they introduced the new Q&A visual in the end of 2019. I’m a huge fan of this feature, but it is sometimes a…