The Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group is resuming in-person meetings! Please join us for the next meeting on Monday, January 9th, at 6:30 PM ET. Elayne Jones (Data Engineer at 3Cloud) will show you how to integrate Synapse with Power BI. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. WE ARE RESUMING IN-PERSON MEETINGS AT THE MICROSOFT OFFICE IN ALPHARETTA. WE…
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Expanding on my previous blog on this subject, there are three options to report-enable your Intranet portals with Power BI reports: Report link – This is the link to the report that you obtain from the browser address bar. If you want to report in full screen viewing mode (hiding the Power BI chrome), you can append the chromeless=1 query parameter to the URL, such…
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A few days ago an exalted customer shared that they've acquired Synapse and now they're ready for Power BI modeling. He just wasn't sure how to give business users access to Synapse so cool self-service BI can finally start. In the process of the conversation, it became clear that he opened Synapse Studio and was left with the impression that Synapse has semantic modeling features.…
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The other day an exalted customer shared that they've acquired Synapse and now they're ready for implementing semantic models with Power BI. The client wasn't sure how to give business users access to Synapse so cool self-service BI can finally start. In the process of the conversation, it became clear that they opened Synapse Studio and were left with the impression that Synapse has semantic…
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DAX can get complex and humble even experienced BI developers. Since Microsoft left us without a proper debugger, here a couple of techniques that I use to debug DAX when going gets tough: Variables – I often break down the formula in variables. As a bonus, variables make expressions easier to read and might yield performance gains. Consider the following SalesYoY% measure that calculates the…
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