Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, December 6th, at 6:30 PM ET. To finish the year at a high note, the famous Guys in the Cube (Patrick and Adam) will tell us how keep the data fresh in Power BI. And your humble correspondent will update you on the Power BI latest. For more…
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As a report author, you are constantly pressed to fit more visuals into a single page. The November release of Power BI Desktop introduced the Power BI Bookmark Navigator, which simplifies the process of creating a tabbed interface, such as this one. Since Power BI doesn't support visual containers or a "menu" visual, you must resort to the awful hack of hiding and showing UX…
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I've architected and currently implementing a solution that uses Synapse (my last newsletter has the details, plus the architecture diagram). Synapse Serverless is the Microsoft answer to Amazon Athena but instead of using open-source tools like Presto, it's built on SQL Server. In this project we extract many tables from 1,500 on-prem SQL Server databases and stage them in ADLS. From there we use Synapse…
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