How to Hijack Power BI Styles to Apply Your Own
In a previous entry we saw how to use Cascading Style Sheets with Power BI’s HTML Content visual do apply dynamic visual effects outside what’s commonly expected within the platform…. Read more »
How to Pimp Your Power BI Reports with Dynamic CSS in the HTML Content Custom Visual
Microsoft Power BI rose to its leading position in the BI market on the back of its top-shelf PowerQuery self-service ETL and VertiPaq in-memory engine as well as its familiarity… Read more »
Row Level Security & Beyond in Business Intelligence Applications: A Practical Overview
The ability to filter data by user is critical whenever sensitive information is shared, whether internally to an organization or even more so externally. This is often known as “row… Read more »
Getting the Most Out of Your Synology Networked Attached Storage: Did You Know It Can Do That?
While the initial consumer-grade NASes sold during the late 2000s/early 2010s had fairly weak CPUs and little memory, newer models priced in pthe $200-$500 range from about 2019 forward are… Read more »
Home LAN + NAS Administration & Security 101 and Beyond for the COVID Era
I’ve had NAS devices for almost 15 years and have grown our local network to 40+ devices for a family of 4, as the PCs, laptops, smart TVs, tablets, phones,… Read more »
How to Bend Plex to Your Will to Handle Complex Libraries Without Losing Your Mind
In past years I went back and forth between Plex and Emby as my media server of choice but eventually settled on the former since I switched my server to… Read more »
Refreshing Power BI Datasets & Dataflows with APIs and Power Automate
When Microsoft introduced Power BI dataflows at the end of 2018 to separate no/low code cloud ETL from BI modeling and visualization, many people were initially confused about how refreshes… Read more »
Use the Schema Tools in Microsoft Dataflows to Manipulate Columns
A new view (pictured above) was recently spotted recently “in the wild” in Power BI dataflows (credit for the find: Dave Rujiter). I can’t find anything about it in the… Read more »
Third-Party Tools to Ease Power BI Development and Increase Analyst Productivity
While some cloud BI tools such as Amazon QuickSight do all their authoring in the browser, Microsoft chose to develop a dedicated client creatively named Power BI Desktop. Its initial… Read more »
Spreadsheets Get Smarter About Structured Data, At A Steep Price
I find it interesting that Microsoft and Google have chosen to gate their latest data-driven improvements to their spreadsheets behind their most expensive enterprise licenses. These new features are great,… Read more »