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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, August 1st, at 6:30 PM ET. We’ll have two presentations by 3Cloud. For […]
I sent a proposal for implementing a classic BI solution: Azure SQL-based datamart (not Power BI datamart please), ETL, semantic model, and reports. The client had a sticker shock. Return […]
Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, July 11th, at 6:30 PM ET. For more details and sign up, visit […]
