Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group Meeting on May 1st (Getting started with Power BI Deployment Pipelines)

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Please join us for the next meeting on Monday, May 1st, at 6:30 PM ET.  Akshata Revankar (Data Engineer, Specialist at McKinsey & Company) will show you how to leverage Power BI deployment pipelines to promote content changes between environments, such as DEV and PROD. For more details and sign up, visit our group page.

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Presentation: Getting started with Power BI Deployment Pipelines
Date: May 1st
Time: 18:30 – 20:30 ET
Place: Onsite and online
Level: Intermediate
Food: Food and drinks will be available for this meeting

Agenda:
18:15-18:30 Registration and networking
18:30-19:00 Organizer and sponsor time (events, Power BI latest, sponsor marketing)
19:00-20:15 Main presentation
20:15-20:30 Q&A

ONSITE (RECOMMENDED)
Improving Office
11675 Rainwater Dr.
Suite #100
Alpharetta, GA 30009

ONLINE
Click here to join the meeting

Overview: If you are wondering, “Is CI/CD possible in Power BI?” , the answer is YES! and this can be achieved with “Deployment Pipelines”. With Deployment Pipelines, it’s now possible to move content smoothly from Development/Test to QA to Production, helping enterprise BI teams bring application lifecycle management to their power BI environments.
· Understand deployment pipelines
· Create a deployment pipeline
· Deploy content with rules
· Comparing Content
· Move content from one stage to next.

Speaker: Akshata Revankar (Data Engineer, Specialist at McKinsey & Company) has 16+ Years of experience in data engineering and data reporting space. Have worked with Oracle database, SQL Server, SSIS, Informatica Power Center, Hadoop systems, Qlik and Power BI. Enjoy being in the data space and learning new things.

Sponsor: TBD

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Fixing SSIS Crashes

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I’ve spent hours on this so someone else might find the solution useful. I’ve developed an SSIS package that uses a ForEach Loop container. Then, I closed Visual Studio and reopen it. The SSIS designer opens the package, thinks for a few seconds if it likes it or not, and then it crashes Visual Studio. I’ve noticed that the VS status bar shows a message that it validates the ForEach Loop container, which was an important clue.

How do we fix this horrible issue? Initially, I was thinking that it was interference from Visual Studio 2022 that someone else has recently installed. So, I upgraded, uninstalled, repaired, tried VS 2022, etc. to no avail.

Finally, I open the package code in text editor and added “DTS:DelayValidation=”True” to the container task to disable the upfront validation on package open.

This fixed the issue although I had no idea what caused the crash.

<DTS:Executable
 DTS:refId="Package\Foreach Loop Container"
 DTS:CreationName="STOCK:FOREACHLOOP"
DTS:DelayValidation="True"
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