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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How you can store All your Power BI Audit Logs easily and indefinitely in Azure
With the new Power BI Get-PowerBIActivityEvent I wanted to find a way where I could automate the entire process where it all runs in the cloud. One of the current challenges with the Audit logs is that they only store 90 days, so if you…
Connecting to Snowflake DB in Power BI
Below are the steps to connect to Snowflake DB using DirectQuery for Power BI. The same steps can be included for Import Mode Installation of ODBC Drivers The first thing I did was to install the ODBC Drivers. I installed the 64bit drivers where I…