No More Copying/Pasting Passwords in Power BI Desktop Unlike Office Microsoft 365 desktop applications, Power BI Desktop doesn’t keep track of more than one account at a time, which is… Read more »
In a previous entry I explained at length the various ways to secure data in business intelligence products. In this follow-up I want to elaborate on which method(s) to use… Read more »
While the initial consumer-grade NASes sold during the late 2000s/early 2010s had fairly weak CPUs and little memory, newer models priced in the $200-$500 range from about 2019 forward are… Read more »
This week it just happened that two of my consulting clients needed a date dimension table so I started revising my base Power Query template to make sure it was… Read more »
Recently I wrote about things you can’t do on the Power platform when querying an on-premises SQL database. Specifically, I wanted to recreate views in a database that gets wiped… Read more »
I’ve been spending time lately trying to get a deployment pipeline to work for one of my clients and ran into a couple of non-intuitive limitations that I didn’t expect,… Read more »
On the surface it may look like Microsoft’s data gateway provides an even playing field between IaaS and PaaS approaches with regards to SQL hosting, i.e. you can run your… Read more »
Power BI’s DAX language is often described as “simple but not easy.” While visuals such as tables and matrices generate a lot of DAX behind the scenes, such as subtotals… Read more »
The main appeal of Power BI’s new Datamart capability is possibly the fact it’s including a SQL Server instance that’s optimized for analytical purposes and is fully managed yet still… Read more »
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 »