Microsoft Dataverse: A Verse Without Rhymes
The cloud is supposed to make things easier, right? Well, not necessarily, as a client and I have recently discovered. They use Dynamics Online 365 and they are facing long […]
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Prologika Newsletter Winter 2020
I hope you’re enjoying the holidays. In this newsletter, I’ll discuss a very important enhancement to Power BI that lets business users extend semantic models. But before I get to […]
The Science of Counting
I’m watching the witness testimonies for election irregularities in Georgia (the state where I live). I’m shocked about how this election became such a mess and international embarrassment. United States […]
Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group Meeting on December 7th
Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, December 7th, at 6:30 PM. Patrick LeBlanc (A Guy in the Cube) will […]
Understanding Power BI Endpoints
In its early days, Power BI introduced an endpoint to support Analyze in Excel (AIXL). Later, the “Power BI datasets” connector relied on this endpoint to support connecting to published […]
Updated Export Settings
A Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! I’m thankful for your interest in and support of my work. I’m glad that Microsoft has recently updated the Power BI tenant export […]
Power BI Dynamic M Query Parameters – Another Opportunity Missed for DirectQuery Users
UPDATE 17-Feb-2022: Dynamic query parameters now support popular relational data sources, and I posted an updated blog. I had recently a Power BI advisory engagement for a large ISV. They […]
Stop Using the Power BI Folder Connector
I know that it’s tempting to use the Folder connector to combine multiple files with the same schema and load them in Power BI Desktop with a few clicks – […]
Power Query Merging on GUID Columns
Scenario: You are merging two tables in Power Query on GUID columns with Text data type. In my case, the first table (UserDim) came from Azure SQL DB and the […]
Solving Configuration Errors with ADF Self-hosted IR
You’ve set up the Azure Data Factory self-hosted integration runtime to access on-prem data sources. You create a linked server, click Test Connection, and then get greeted with an error […]
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