Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, January 3rd, at 6:30 PM ET. Paul Turley will show us how to integrate Power BI with paginated (SSRS) reports. And your humble correspondent will update you on the Power BI latest. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. Presentation: Power BI Paginated Reports: The…
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Bring your data to life today and learn how Power BI changes the way everyone gains insights from data. Publication date: 1/1/2022 Size: 590 pages, 7.5" x 9.25" Price: $49.99 ISBN 10: 1-7330461-3-5 ISBN 13: 978-1-7330461-3-8 Introduces information workers, data analysts, IT pros, and developers to Microsoft Power BI — a cloud-hosted, business intelligence and analytics platform that democratizes and opens BI to everyone, making…
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Happy Holidays! More and more organizations consider data virtualization to abstract the underlying storage and integrate siloed sources. In this letter, I'll discuss a real-life project that used PolyBase to expose third-party ERP data as SQL tables. Before I get to the subject of this newsletter, I'm excited to announce the seventh edition of my "Applied Microsoft Power BI" book. It should be available on…
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A while back a client wanted to avoid importing a large snapshot fact table with loan balances because its memory footprint would require them to upgrade to a higher Power BI premium plan. This of course required leaving the table in DirectQuery mode at the expense of query performance. Luckily, most users would be interested in the latest six months of data. To speed up…
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