Power BI Desktop – How did I connect to Analysis Services using my Power BI Desktop Application when I was outside of the Analysis Services Domain?
I was working with a customer where I was working on my own laptop. My laptop is not part of their domain. I did have an account in their domain and when I tried to connect using Power BI Desktop, I got the following error when trying to connect as shown below. This is not the greatest error message. Fortunately,…
Power BI RoundUp – Help Shape the Future of Power BI – On-Premise Update for Nov 2018 – Modeling View – Analysis Services is 20 years old!
Here is my weekly roundup, and whilst it has not been as busy as the past few weeks, there are still some awesome updates. Power BI – Help Shape the Future of Power BI I always think it is really important to provide feedback, especially when they are asking for assistance. You can click on the link above to take…
What runs under the cover when I open Power BI Desktop
I am always interested in what happens under the covers when I open Power BI Desktop. So I did a little digging and I got the inspiration from Macro Russo when he did his Webinar as well as presented at the Queensland Power BI User Group on “My Power BI report is slow: what should I do?” What happens when…
SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) – Getting all partition information from SSAS Database
I had a requirement where I wanted to find out and keep a constant record of exactly how my partitions were set up and created within SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). So below is a script that I found somewhere (If I find the source I will put it in hereJ) and how I inserted into a SQL Server Table…