
Non-Obvious Functional Behavior in Power BI Deployment Pipelines
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 »
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 »
With the preview launch of Power BI datamarts in May 2022, there is yet another data entity to contend with in the Power BI ecosystem. I plan to update this… Read more »
This entry fills in the gaps of Microsoft’s official documentation as I had to go through a fair amount of trial and error to get things going. It assumes general… Read more »
Data-centric jobs are sitting by definition at the intersection of business and technology, and that affects who performs these jobs, their tools, and workflows. Traditionally data analysts tend to be… Read more »
Power BI is strongest for its built-in Power Query ETL and powerful Vertipaq tabular engine, but it’s not renowned as the crispest visualization tool on the commercial BI scene (most… Read more »
I recently had a blast talking with Rob Collie and Tom LaRock on their Raw Data podcast, covering some of my eclectic obsessions from international arbitrage and public deficits to… Read more »
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 »
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 »