Power BI

A name is important. The right name is important. In this post, I reflect on the choice of names in the Microsoft BI stack. From time to time, a bad name ar

Just an end user of Power BI? Consuming reports and not authoring at all? Adam walks through how to navigate and use Power BI reports. Jump in and get familiar with reports in Power BI! Reports in Power BI https://docs.microsoft.com/power-bi/consumer/end-user-reports View a report in the Power BI service for business users https://docs.microsoft.com/power-bi/consumer/end-user-report-open

Launching the anticipated autoscale add-on preview for Premium gen2 capacity

This article explains the most common causes of the error, “A circular dependency was detected” in Power BI and Analysis Services. A circular dependency

Maybe you want your Power BI report users to get be notified of some changes that occurred. And, you want that displayed within the report. Patrick has a way you can do just that!

Reading Time: 4 minutes From a creative standpoint, it’s disheartening if you’re often trying to get users past a Table and Export mentality with Power BI. What otherwise could be a strong BI tool ends up simply being used as middleware for Excel. Alongside...

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image media="88067" media_width_percent="100"][vc_column_text]In this Power BI tutorial, you'll learn how to lock down your data model using Object-Level Security […]

I have already done a video/post on how to implement a static drop down navigation, so in this tutorial I will cover how to implement a dropdown navigation where options are dynamically populated b…

We are excited to announce the public preview of VNet connectivity for Power BI datasets.

In this blog post I show how to use Object Level Security in Power BI to limit access to non-financial data.

The Microsoft Power BI team’s mission is to help our customers drive a data culture where everyone can make better decisions with data. Power BI empowers every business user and business analyst to get amazing insights with AI infused experiences. With Power BI Premium, we enable business analysts to not only analyze and visualize their data, but to also build an end-to-end data platform through drag and drop experiences.

So, there may be six more weeks of Winter – thanks, Phil. And February may only have 28 days this go around the sun… but it was busy, no matter how long or short the groundhog shadows. February 2021 brought some great new offerings: Microsoft Viva Topics (GA), SharePoint web part toolbox updates, ...

I sometimes get asked from customers if they should use a star schema or should they use one large single table/flatfile for their dataset in Power BI. The answer is almost always star schema, and …

Power BI offers an add-in to work with 3rd party external tools like Tabular Editor , DAX Studio and ALM toolkit . The fact that you can use a tool of your own preference is already really cool! But did you know that you can build external tools yourself pretty easily? Even as a non-develope

The blog post demonstratesstore the Power BI Audit Logs using Azure Function Apps and Azure Blog Storage to store the files.

A full, easy to install Power BI Version Control solution allowing source control, check ins and local editing. Download for free now!

Now that read/write XMLA endpoints for Power BI Premium datasets are generally available, along with support for service principals, BI teams have the ability to implement customized automation pro…

In the past two years, I released 5 Power BI apps on AppSource. You can take a look here. To celebrate the milestone of releasing the latest ActiveCampaign app and for reaching 20K unique installers across all apps (with ~150 daily new users), I am going to email you a special gift: A Power BI…