Correlating Analysis Services Errors with Measures
This blog builds upon my previous “Resolving Tabular Conversion Errors” and applies to Analysis Services in all flavors (Power BI, MD, and Tabular). In the scenario I described in the […]
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Resolving Tabular Conversion Errors
A scheduled SSIS job that executes a massive DAX query to an on-prem Tabular server (Power BI can also generate this error) one day decided to throw an error “Source: […]
Embedding Power BI Reports in Internal Portals
This question pops up over and over. What’s the easiest way to embed a Power BI or paginated report hosted in Power BI Service in an internal portal, such as […]
Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group Meeting on October 3rd (Auto-provision embedded report delivery for your customers)
Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, October 3rd, at 6:30 PM ET. Tom Huguelet (Lucient) will present a real-world […]
Power BI Visual Help Tooltips
Want to display a visual-left hint to perplexed users that explains what your visual is supposed to reveal? Like me, you’ve probably missed the handy Power BI help tooltips feature […]
Prologika Newsletter Fall 2022
BI implementation shortcuts are tempting and disguise themselves as cost-effective. True, you can slap a Power BI dataset on top of your data (the cornerstone of self-service BI), but most […]
Batch Renaming Columns in Power BI Tables
Scenario: You need to rename many columns in a Power BI table. Usually, I rename measure-related columns with “Base” suffix and hide them, and then I create explicit measures. Since […]
Refreshing Power BI Datasets from SSIS
Scenario: You use SSIS to load data for on-prem BI solution. As a last step of the ETL pipeline, you want to refresh a Power BI dataset. There’s quite a […]
Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group Meeting on September 12th (Incremental Refresh and Hybrid Tables in Power BI)
Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, September 12th, at 6:30 PM ET. Shabnam Watson (Microsoft MVP) will discuss how […]
Not Your Kimball’s DW
BI practitioners, myself included, have been following the Kimbal tenets for dimensional schema design for years. In fact, it’s a second nature to dimensionalize every BI project the “proper” way. […]
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