Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, May 4th at 18:30 ET. Jackie Kiadii will show you how you use the Copilot capabilities in Power BI. CloudStaff will sponsor the meeting. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. Delivery: In-person Level: Beginner/Intermediate Food: Pizza and drinks will be provided Agenda: 18:15-18:30 Registration and networking 18:30-19:00 Organizer…
Coming back from a long vacation, I’ve almost missed this interesting Power BI enhancement: Power BI unmaterialized calculated columns. Normally, I avoid the traditional DAX calculated columns for a variety of reasons, such as confusion about where business logic is applied, limited support across storage modes (for example, Direct Lake doesn’t support them), longer refresh times, etc. This not to say that calculated columns can't…
I’ve mentioned previously in the “A Couple of Direct Lake Gotchas” post that unlike Power BI reports, Excel surprised me by not showing user-defined hierarchies in a Direct Lake model. Direct Lake comes with other gotchas, such as not supporting DAX calculated columns and SQL views. I normally don’t use calculated columns, but they can come in handy, such as for flatting a parent-child hierarchies…
Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, March 2nd at 18:30 ET. Shabnam Watson will show you how you can apply your SQL skills in Microsoft Fabric. And your humble correspondent will walk you through some of the latest Power BI and Fabric enhancements. I will sponsor the meeting. For more details and sign up, visit our group…
I’m helping an enterprise client modernize their data analytics estate. As a part of this exercise, a SSAS Multidimensional financial cube must be converted to a Power BI semantic model. The challenge is that business users ask for almost real-time BI during the forecasting period, where a change in the source forecasting system must be quickly propagated to the reporting the layer, so the users…
Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, February 2nd at 18:30 ET. Sukhwant Kaur (Product Manager at Microsoft) will show you how supercharge your Power BI reports with translytical taskflows. And your humble correspondent will walk you through some of the latest Power BI and Fabric enhancements. CloudStaff.au will sponsor the meeting. For more details and sign up,…
Happy New Year with oldies but goodies…especially given that this technique might be hard to find elsewhere! How do you implement a tooltip page that shows only the measure the end user hovers over? Consider this matrix with three measures on columns grouped by product categories on rows. The user wants to see a trend chart for the measure they hover over. Understanding the challenge…
Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, January 5th at 18:30 ET. Dean Jurecic will show you how Power BI visual calculations can simplify the process of writing DAX. And your humble correspondent will walk you through some of the latest Power BI and Fabric enhancements. Key2 Consulting will sponsor the meeting. For more details and sign up,…
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside Telegraph road got so deep and so wide Like a rolling river… The Telegraph Road, Dire Straits At Ignite in November, 2025, Microsoft introduced Fabric IQ. I noted to go beyond the marketing hype and check if Fabric IQ makes any sense. The next thing I know, around the holidays I’m talking to an enterprise strategy manager…
What performance and cost considerations should you keep in mind if you are currently on Power BI Pro/PPU, but Fabric looks increasingly enticing and you want to upgrade an existing workspace to Fabric? For example, let's say you've started with a pay-per-user workspace, but now you want that workspace to have Fabric features, such as Copilot, Lakehouse, etc. Or, as a typical use case for…
