Prologika Newsletter Spring 2018
Extending Power BI with PowerApps and Flow With hundreds of vendors out there, choosing a BI tool isn’t easy. If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that […]
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Using Profiler to Trace Azure Analysis Services
Scenario: You use Azure Analysis Services and you want to trace events in the SQL Server Profiler. However, you run the Profiler, connect to AAS, and you get greeted with […]
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is available for public preview (for pricing see this page). It will play a very important role in the SQL Server cloud PaaS derivatives, which […]
DAX Rank Over Two Columns
Scenario: An interesting scenario came today from a client. Consider the following schema. You have a fact table InternetSales and two dimension tables (Customer and SalesTerritory). You want to produce […]
Prologika AppSource Consulting Offers
Microsoft selected and published two Prologika Power BI-related consulting offers on Microsoft AppSource. And their price is right; they are both free! Power BI for Your Organization: 2 HR Assessment – Prologika […]
2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms
The 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms is out. I read the report and followed the dots. I personally hoped to see the Microsoft dot higher […]
Quadrants Here, Quadrants There…
While we’re waiting for the Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Data Analytics (should be out any moment), two others related to data analytics were released. 2018 Magic Quadrant for Data […]
Unblocking MDX Queries from SSRS Reports
I love performance optimization. It’s exciting to peek under the hood and take a deep dive in the mysterious world of how Microsoft designed things. And it always humbles me […]
Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group Meeting on February 26th
MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on February 26th at 6:30 PM. Stacey Jones will explain how Power BI can integrate […]
Tableau Hyper vs. Power BI xVelocity
To compete more effectively with Power BI, Tableau acquired a database technology called HyPer. Like the Microsoft xVelocity in-memory technology (formerly known as VertiPaq), which powers Analysis Services Tabular, Power […]
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