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How do Power BI datasets and dataflows relate to each other? Do you need one if you have the other? I received this question as a comment on another post, and I think it warrants a full post as a r…

Yesterday I posted an article comparing Power BI dataflows, Power BI datasets, and Azure Analysis Services. Although I’d like to believe that the article was useful, I used the disclaimer …

Since we announced the limited public preview of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 in June, the response has been resounding. Customers participating in the ADLS Gen2 preview have directly benefi&he…

That title got your attention, didn't it? Before we move on, no, you cannot create and publish dataflow entities from Power BI Desktop today. Creating dataflows is a task you need to perform in the br…

As I am typing this I am wondering if tomorrow I will have to update it with the new Power BI Desktop features, or if this will be coming out next week! Here is my weekly Power BI RoundUp Power BI …

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As it currently stands when I setup a dataset refresh it only emails me when it fails. I was recently at a customer where there is a team of Power BI Developers, and I wanted to find a way that all…

You did know that Power BI supports natural language queries, right? All you need to do is to add the Q&A button to your report and your customers will be able to navigate their data just by asking qu…

Last week, I participated in an “Ask Me Anything” session where I answered questions around both Paginated Reports in Power BI, as well as questions around SQL Server Reporting Services and Power B…

This weeks webinar will highlight a community tool called Power BI Helper that helps you explore, tune and document your Power BI reports by Reza Rad.

I didn’t plan on writing a sequel to my Positioning Power BI Dataflows post, but a few comments I’ve seen recently have made me think that one might be useful. I also didn’t plan …

A Power BI administrator is a role for managing various aspects of the Power BI Service. This role can be assigned in Office 365. Anyone with Office 365 global admin privileges is also a Power BI administrator by default. Based on the tests I've been doing, I've observed that users with membership

One advantage of data warehouses is the ability to have data from multiple data sources available for analysis without being constrained by the availability and performance characteristics of those da…

Power BI Service and Mobile September & October Feature Summary Power BI delivers dataflows, enterprise reporting, and major updates to Power BI Desktop Public Preview of Paginated Reports in Power BI…

Refreshing data in Power BI from SQL Server Read-only or Secondary Replica’s (@GilbertQue) Quick Measures in Power BI: You don’t have to write DAX!? (@Rad_Reza) How to use A SKU’s to try out Paginated…

Power BI Visual Usability Checklist (@mmarie) Get the most out of Power Query in Power BI Dataflows (@diverdown1964) Analysis Services is 20 years old! Announcing new AI Capabilities for Power BI to make AI Accessible for Everyone Power BI Desktop November 2018 Feature Summary BONUS ITEMS: Tableau to Power BI: Highlighting with Set Actions (@dataveld) […]

With data lakes becoming very popular, a common question I have been hearing often from customers is, “Should I load structured/relational data into my data lake?”. I talked about this…

Hi, I use a Personal Gateway to auto-update my Datasets. One data source - Sharepoint, is now throwing an error. I can log into Sharepoint fine normally, and it refreshes in my local Power BI file, but the online credentials suddenly don't work. Oddly, when I check t...

Hi I have installed an on-premisis gateway- It is online and all connections are online too: I am using this gateway to refresh, and everything seems fine: But when I try to refresh, I get an error, saying that my PERSONAL gateway is offline: Everything worked until November 8th. I ha...

Our data gateway has been occasionally failing scheduled refreshes with 'gateway unreachable' errors which I'm fairly confident are because the machine was taxed by other data processing tasks, so to remedy I've added a second data gateway to the same cluster and set the cluster to distribute querie...

If you’ve been reading this blog, you already know a few things: Power BI includes a capability for self-service data preparation called “dataflows” Dataflows include computed ent…

Q: What are Power BI dataflows? A: Dataflows are a capability in Power BI for self-service ETL and data preparation that enable analysts and business users to define and share reusable data entitie…

Hi everyone, it’s guest blogger Paginated Report Bear! Well, actually, Mr. Chris agreed to type for me since I don’t have fingers. Anyways, if you watched my intro video, I promised you all I’d ma…

In this week’s webinar the Report Server team will answer your questions about paginated reports for Power BI Report Server AND show you the answers live. Don't have any questions? Not to worry we will have the team pull out their favorite demo and show why you should start using paginated reports now.

This is a question that comes up all the time. Power BI licensing is not complicated but a common challenge is that the person who sets up a new Power BI subscription and tenant within an organiza…

You might know that we can connect Excel to Power BI using “Analyze in Excel” feature. If this is something new for you – check out following video (3 min) By default, after click…

It’s been two weeks since Power BI dataflows became publicly available in preview, and there’s been a flood of interest and excitement as people have started exploring and using this ne…