Getting Rid Of Custom Visuals
Scenario: You might have imported a custom visual in Power BI Desktop, tested it, and decided not to use it. However, even if your reports don’t use the visual anymore, […]
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Implementing User Friendly Names in Tabular
Scenario: You’d want to have user-friendly field names in Tabular, Power Pivot, and Power BI Desktop, such as Claim Amount as opposed to database column names, such as ClaimAmount or […]
Microsoft Acquires Metanautix
If you’ve missed the announcement from a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft acquired Metanautix – a startup founded by ex-Google engineers who worked on BigQuery (aka Dremel). Technical details are […]
SSRS Treemap and Sunburst Charts
Years ago, I wrote a blog about how, with some code wizardry, you can create heat maps with Reporting Services. Moving to SSRS 2016, you don’t have to do this […]
Integrate SSRS 2016 Reports with Power BI
As I said in the “Microsoft Unveils BI Roadmap” blog, SSRS will play an important role of the on-premises BI portal. With this post, I’ll start covering the new SSRS […]
The One and Only Power BI Book
To me, Power BI is the most exciting milestone in the Microsoft BI journey since circa 2005, when Microsoft got serious about BI. Power BI changes the way you gain […]
Announcing Sparkline Visual
A sparkline is a miniature graph, typically drawn without axes or coordinates. Commonly used on dashboards, sparklines typically visualize trends over time, such as to show profit over the past […]
New Tabular Schema in SQL Server 2016
Those of you who had to generate programmatically Tabular models or make changes to the schema would agree that it was more complicated that it should have been. That’s because […]
Introducing Office Online Server
Continuing the line of thought from my previous blog “Microsoft Unveils BI Roadmap”, one nagging question still remains. What to do with all these Excel files now that SSRS came […]
Microsoft Unveils BI Roadmap
Today at the SQL PASS Summit 2015, Microsoft shared its BI roadmap for next year and beyond. The BI cloud roadmap shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. It’s centered around […]
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