SUMMARIZE is a very powerful and very complex function to use. This article describes its internal behavior, and provides guidance on how to use it. If you
Free Power BI Intro Training From Microsoft – BI Polar
As anyone who is familiar with my series on building a data culture knows, training is an absolutely vital success factor for a community of practice. This isn’t limited to developers, admini…
xViz Hierarchy Filter/Slicer - Power BI Advanced Custom Visual
Hierarchy FilterFor Microsoft® Power BIThe Hierarchy Filter is a selector component like a native slicer, just that it can display multiple category values in an expandable tree view used to …
SUMMARIZE is a very powerful and very complex function to use. This article describes its internal behavior, and provides guidance on how to use it. If you like to follow best practices, you can just read this paragraph out of the entire article. If you are using SUMMARIZE to calculate new columns, s
Integrate Power BI Deployment Pipelines with Azure DevOps
Back in 2019, Ton Swart and I wrote a blog post on Versioning and CI/CD for Power BI with Azure DevOps. Back then, there were not many options available for versioning and professionalizing your AL…
Paradigm BI Posts - Paradigm BI and Active Business Intelligence Updates - We're going to make some customer-friendly KPIs using the Adaptive Cards custom visual for Power BI.
Setting the right permissions for users of composite models - SQLBI
When you create and publish a composite model using DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Analysis Services, you should pay attention to the minimal permiss
The other day I was facing an interesting question "How can I randomly draw ten records from the top 50 for each group using Power Query?" As you may guess, this article also contains the answer.
You're Deploying it Wrong! - AS Edition (Part 5) - Tabular Editor
This is part 5 of the Analysis Services DevOps blog series. Go to part 4
Release Pipelines
In the previous chapter, we saw how to set up a complete build pipeline, that loads our Tabular model from source control, performs a schema check, runs the Best Practice Analyzer and even performs a validation deployment. At the
You're Deploying it Wrong! - AS Edition (Part 2) - Tabular Editor
This is part 2 of the Analysis Services DevOps blog series. Go to part 1
Branching strategy and workflow
The first thing we need to align before getting started, is what branching strategy to use. While this sounds boring, it’s actually quite important, because it will dictate what the daily development workflow will be
Exporting Translations
Tabular Editor lets you export translations into the same .json file format used by Visual Studio and SSAS Tabular Translator. This is useful if you want to delegate the task of translating your model to someone without access to your tabular model metadata. Let’s say you’ve added a new culture (called “translation” within Tabular
Power BI Windows app is designed to provide great Power BI consumption experience for Windows users. Business users who do not need to create or edit reports can use this app for simpler and easier view and usage of reports, dashboards and apps. In this release we are introducing preview of Power BI Windows app’s new look, which includes new home page.
What’s new in the June update of Power BI Report Builder
We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of Power BI Report Builder! This release includes a number of new features designed to improve your paginated report authoring experience, plus we’ve now added Power BI Report Builder as an app in the Microsoft Store.
TOPN DAX Function: How it works in Power BI? Comparison against the top group
learn how to use TopN function in DAX either to create a calculated table, or to use it in a measure to achieve analysis such as; comparison with the average amount of the top group.
Power BI Challenge 13 – Acing Your Documentation - Microsoft Power BI Community
We’ve just finished a difficult yet fulfilling 12th round for the Power BI Challenge, which was based on a transport and shipping dataset. This was probably one of the most difficult challenges we’ve had to date, and we’re very impressed with the participants’ in-depth analysis on their entries. ...