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 »
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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 »
Row Level Security 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 »
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 »
Things I Found Out the Hard Way to Get the Most of the Nvidia Shield
I bought an Nvidia Shield (2017 model) on sale for $140 at the end of 2018 and am amazed by how much this tiny device can accomplish. It’s connected to… Read more »
Nobody-Asked-Me Advice to Makers of Custom Visuals for Power BI
As a Power BI consultant I use many custom visuals from the AppSource marketplace and have tested many more, if not most of them. The good news is that there… Read more »
Using Dataflows from Multiple Tenants in Power BI Desktop
Most people working for a single organization are unlikely to run into this use case, but if you’re a consultant like me then this issue will annoy you. In Power… Read more »
How To Use Live Connection Reports Across Workspaces with #PowerBI
Fulfilling a long-standing request to make it easier to administrate Power BI content, it is now possible to use a dataset from one app workspace as the source for a… Read more »