Chasing SSAS Connection Timeouts
Suppose you have a Tabular model and you send a massive DAX query to it that could run for hours, such as to calculate many measures (in our case hundreds) […]
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Azure Data Factory is Getting Better All the Time
Three years ago, I wrote that it would probably take a decade for to mature and close the gap with SSIS. To its credit thought, while it’s still lagging in […]
Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group Meeting on August 2nd
Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, August 2nd, at 6:30 PM. Avi Singh (LearnPowerBI.com) will discuss how you can […]
Interactive Excel Pivots in Power BI
A long-standing limitation of Power BI has been that Excel pivot reports connected to external Analysis Services models can’t be interacted with when uploaded to Power BI Service. You get […]
Cloud Inhibitors
In a previous blog, I said I consider it a travesty when a vendor’s cloud offering prohibits direct access to the data in its native storage, which is typically a […]
Synapse Serverless: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
When you a provision a Synapse workspace, you get a serverless endpoint for free (or almost free). This endpoint represents Synapse Serverless: a query service for ad-hoc exploration of data […]
Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group Meeting on July 5th
Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, July 5th, at 6:30 PM. Reid Havens (Consultant and MVP) will show us […]
Prologika Newsletter Summer 2021
Business Performance Management (BPM) is a methodology to help the company predict its performance. An integral part of a BPM strategy is creating and monitoring a scorecard with Key Performance […]
Top 5 Reasons to Switch to Power BI Gen2
You should definitely switch your Power BI Premium capacities to Gen2 although you might wait until it goes GA because Gen2 is currently in preview if you’re risk-averse. I switched […]
Power BI Aggregations: Limitations and Workarounds
Power BI aggregations are meant to speed up queries to large DirectQuery tables, as a DBA would create summarized tables to speed up queries to large tables. The most appealing […]
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