Getting automatically notified for Power BI Support Issues
I had an interesting question from a good friend of mine on Twitter (Mim), where he asked if it was possible to get notified of when there are updates to Power BI Support issues. This got me thinking as I had already created my own Power BI Report, which sends me a daily email subscription of the Power BI Support…
Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate) Announcements from Ignite & SQL Pass
It is that time of the year when there are 2 massive Microsoft conferences happening at the same time. As I have done previously, please find below all the Power Platform announcements with some of my initial thoughts. I do get FOMO at not being at either of them, but thanks to Twitter and other good people there is no…
AAS (Azure Analysis Services) / SSAS Tabular -Using BISM Normalizer to NOT Overwrite existing Partitions
I had partitions already configured and running on my AAS model. Partitions allow you to process only the data that needs to be updated. I have certainly done it in the past whereby mistake I updated all the partitions, which would mean I would then need to re-process them. This would not only take a lot of time (due to…
How to see what the actual values are in a FILTER when using a DAX Measure
I was working with a customer trying to get them to better understand DAX and one if the things that is difficult to understand is how the filtering works in DAX. The challenge I have found is that when using filters in a DAX measure I cannot visually see what is happening within the DAX Filter. Below I will show…
Power Query – Add Column to see if it is a Number Data Type
I was recently extracting some data from a web page and I wanted to remove all the rows that did not have a Numeric or Number value. I solved it by doing the following below. The column I was using was called ironically Column5 The syntax below can be used in Power Query / Query Editor to see if the…
Power BI – Bulk Changing Permissions (Read, Reshare & Build) on Datasets
I recently had a challenge where a report was shared with a whole lot of people (Which is a good thing!). The challenge was that when you share reports, by default it has the option to “Reshare” as shown below. Whilst this sometimes is what is required, I always suggest to people to remove this option and rather manage it…
Did you know you can use the Scheduled Cache Refresh for LiveConnections in Power BI to tell you if it is down?
Did you know you could use the Scheduled Cache refresh to notify you if your Live Connection is down between Power BI and your SSAS/AAS Database? In this example below I already have got my reporting connecting to an Azure Analysis Services database, this could also be an On-Premise SQL Server Analysis Services database. I make sure that I first…
Using Power BI Support to create a Support Ticket
Whilst I have been busy answering questions on the Power BI Community one of the things that I have found is that at times people with Power BI Pro or Power BI Premium are unsure where to create a support ticket which will allow them to escalate their issues. Below I explain how to do this. Creating Support Ticket The…
Power Query – Getting the Min Value repeated for all rows in my table
I was working on a side project, looking to track how I had been training in Strava (Yes, I am a M.A.M.I.L. for anyone who has been to my presentations would have seen the picture!) What I was looking to do was to get the starting time of my event repeated on every row, which would then allow me to…
How to enable the Power BI On-Premise Data Gateway to Stream data immediately
Below is a quick blog post on how to stream the data immediately when using the On-Premise Data Gateway. Currently as far as I understand it the On-Premise Data Gateway will wait and buffer some data before sending it through to the Power BI Service. By changing the setting below in the On-Premise Data Gateway, it will start streaming the…