Azure Synapse: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Cloud deployments are the norm nowadays for new software projects, including BI. And Azure Synapse shows a great potential for modern cloud-based data analytics. Here are some high-level pros and […]
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Uploading Files to ADLS Gen2 with Python and Service Principal Authentication
I had an integration challenge recently. I set up Azure Data Lake Storage for a client and one of their customers want to use Python to automate the file upload […]
Presenting Analytics in a Day Workshop on August 20th
In partnership with Microsoft, I’m delivering a complimentary, one-day, Analytics in a Day virtual workshop on August 20th, 9 AM – 5 PM Eastern Time. Targeting BI developers, architects and […]
Discipline at the Core, Flexibility at the Edge
I’m preparing to teach the brand new Analytics in a Day course by Microsoft. This course emphasizes the business value and technical fundamentals for implementing a modern cloud DW using […]
Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group Meeting on August 3rd
Our group celebrates its 10 anniversary! Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, August 3rd, at 6:30 PM. Chris Hamill […]
Why You Need a Trusted Advisor
I’ve providing advisory services to a Fortune 500 organization for a few months now. As all large organizations, they adopted Power BI Premium. However, they have provisioned only one Power […]
Conquering Time Zones
A client has Power BI models connected to Dynamics Online. Dynamics stores all dates in UTC instead of keeping the time offset, such as 7/14/2020 1:21:29 AM +00:00. Naturally, the […]
Designing Responsive Power BI Reports (Part 2)
In my previous post about responsive reports, I said that changes to the report design can dramatically reduce the report load time. But you will undoubtedly reach a point where […]
Propagating DAX BLANK() Over Relationships
Happy 4th of July with a DAX puzzle! Consider the following three tables. Notice that InvoiceDetails has a data integrity issue where the third row doesn’t have InvoiceNo (InvoiceNo is […]
Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group Meeting on July 6th
MS BI fans, please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, July 6th, at 6:30 PM. David Eldersveld, a Microsoft MVP, […]
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