Quick Tips for Aggregations & Composite Models in Power BI
I have been working with a customer on the implementation of Aggregations with Composite Models in Power BI and I have found that there are a few useful tips to assist you with getting it up and running. Tip 1 – Always ensure that queries start off as DirectQuery When starting to bring in the composite models the first thing…
Power BI RoundUp – (Desktop Update Oct 2018 – Aggregations for Petabytes Scale – Webinar Ask Anything on Power BI Premium – Power BI Report Server Timing)
I am sure that there were a few people who were eagerly waiting for the Power BI Desktop Update for October 2018. I sure was one of them and it was well worth the wait. Please read all the details below, as well as other updates that happened in the past week. Power BI – Desktop Update Oct 2018 There…
Power BI Gateway – How to remove a Gateway Instance from the Gateway Cluster
I recently was troubleshooting a performance issue for a customer where their LiveConnection was slow when connecting to an On-Premise SSAS Tabular server via the On-Premise Data Gateway. One of the things that I had to do was to remove an existing On-Premise Data Gateway from a cluster, so that I can then move the Gateway onto another server. NOTE:…
Power BI RoundUp – (Power BI Preview Features in Action – Developer Update for Sept – Webinar on Power Query & M for Calendar Tables)
Welcome to another week of the weekly Power BI RoundUp, I hope you enjoy catching up on the latest content below. Power BI – Power BI Preview Features in Action In this blog post by Chuck (Charles) Sterling he goes into details on all the preview features that are going to be shown at the last 3 stops of the…
Power BI – Modifying the Colours in the Options of the Visual Headers
I was recently consulting at a customer and I was looking to better understand if there was a way to disable the exporting of Underlying data, but whilst investigating this I came across the formatting pane and as shown below I could modify the menu in the Options for Visual Headers which I detail below. The first step is to…
Power BI RoundUp – (Premium Capacity Metrics App – Power BI Home & Global Search)
I have decided to rebrand or change the name of my weekly round up from BI RoundUp to Power BI RoundUp, because it is almost always about Power BI. And with the new direction from Microsoft this makes perfect sense. As always please find the latest updates below. Power BI – Premium Capacity Metrics App This new app is great…
Power BI InfoGraphic Update – Sep 2018
It has been a few months since I have updated my Power BI InfoGraphic and with the speed at which this all changes and updates I have always had a challenge to keep it up to date. The following items have been added with links to more details: Composite Models Buttons Aggregations Comments in Dashboards New App Workspaces Geographic Distribution…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Service & Mobile Update for July & August 2018 – User Research Panel – On-Premise Gateway Update for Sep – Webinar on Power BI Dashboard Comments)
Here is this weekly BI-RoundUp where I will detail what updates there have been in the past week. Power BI – Service & Mobile Update for July & August 2018 In the past two months there has been a lot of updates to the Power BI Service and the Power BI Mobile App. All the details are below with links…
DAX – Getting the Start Date of the following Week
I was recently doing some work for a customer where they wanted to compare their date to the start date of the following week. They also had a requirement to persist the data to the dataset. I thought that this would be a good challenge to use DAX with a calculated column. I most certainly could do this using the…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Sep Update for Power BI Desktop – Dashboard Comments – Community Contribution to PowerShell Cmdlets – Power BI PowerShell Cmdlets available in Azure Cloud Shell)
Welcome to another week of my Power BI Round Up. And as expected there is another massive Power BI Desktop Update. Power BI – September Update for Power BI Desktop As always I am going to over the new features and highlight what I think is really relevant in terms of what has been released. Reporting With the added support…