How to refresh selected (not all) tables in Power BI Desktop
When working with Power BI datasets I often want to refresh multiple tables, BUT not all the tables in my model. (This often happens when I made a change to underlying data sources and I want to make sure it is working as expected in Power BI Desktop) I recently found that I could do it by doing the following…
Create Trello Reporting using Power BI
Where I am consulting, they use Trello boards which enables them to keep track of what tasks are being done, getting done and how things are progressing. An interesting question came up asking how much work has been done. And I thought this could be done via Trello and looking at the number of tasks in the boards that have…
Creating a Power BI Report from the Audit Logs stored in Azure Blob Storage
Following on from my blog post on How you can store All your Power BI Audit Logs easily and indefinitely in Azure, I wanted to share with you how I connected to the Blob Storage Files and created my Power BI report, to report on the audit logs. Pre-requisites Before starting with the Power BI report, I first had to…
Power BI – Which Groups can be used to set Permissions in Power BI
There are quite a few areas where Power BI can assign permissions. Below is a list of which permissions can be assigned by which Groups that are available in Power BI. Explanation of Groups Security Group This is also known as an Active Directory Security Group. This group lives within Active Directory and Azure Active Directory. It is where you…
Teams – Running a Live Event
What I then found is that when I ran my first live event (as a test) there were a few things that I had no idea how to complete it. I thought it would be good to have a follow up blog post on how to run the live event. In my previous blog post I demonstrated how to setup…
Microsoft Teams – Creating/Hosting a Live Event for User Group Meetings
With all the challenges we are facing with the COVID-19 almost all User Group Meetings and other meetings have now gone virtual. One of the features within Microsoft Teams is that you can create and host a Live Event. In this blog post I am going to cover how to configure and set this up “Events produced by Teams”. I…
How to configure Incremental Refreshing in Power BI with DateKey or Date (instead of the default DateTime)
I was helping on the Power BI community forum (where I certainly learn a lot) and I came across this blog post where a Microsoft Employee had suggested that a Power Query function could be used as part of the Incremental refresh. What I mean by this is when implementing Incremental refreshing in Power BI the default is that you…
A Real implementation of Approximate Distinct Count vs DISTINCTCOUNT is 7X faster!
I am very fortunate to have known Phil Seamark for quite some time. And quite a while ago we were chatting, and Phil mentioned that he had this idea that he could get an approximate distinct count working where it could be VERY close to the actual DISTINCTCOUNT (Using DAX) If you are unaware one of the most expensive DAX…
Ensuring your Power BI Incremental Refresh does not Timeout when using a SQL Server Source
I recently was updating my PBIX files to use the Incremental refresh. I ran into a timeout error as shown below. This was because on the first refresh it has to process all the data before it can incrementally refresh the dataset. As per the documentation the default timeout for a SQL Server database is set to 10 minutes, and…
How to configure Azure Function App notifications for errors
Below are the steps to enable error notifications on Azure Function Apps Follows on from my previous blog post How you can store All your Power BI Audit Logs easily and indefinitely in Azure, where every day it extracts the Audit logs into Azure Blob storage. One of the key things when working with any job that runs, is that…