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Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, June 7th, at 6:30 PM. Stacey Jones (Principal Data Solutions Architect with Microsoft) will introduce us to Azure Purview. And I'll cover the Power BI latest enhancements. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. Presentation: Data Governance with Azure Purview Date: June 7th Time: 6:30…
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In a recent project, I had to execute an SSIS package deployed to the catalog from a stored procedure. The package uses Windows authentication to connect to the data sources. When executing the package from the catalog or from the stored procedure, the package immediately fails and the following two errors are logged: DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER. The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Source" failed with…
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A vital BI practice for every organization, performance management ensures that important metrics, such as Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), meet established goals. The typical artifact to do so is implementing a scorecard: a report that compares the current state with the desired state of these metrics. You might have also heard the term "balanced scorecard" which is an organization-wide scorecard that tracks several subject areas,…
Read article Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, May 3rd, at 6:30 PM. James Serra will overview Azure Synapse for implementing a data lakehouse. And I'll cover the Power BI latest enhancements. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. Presentation: Azure Synapse Analytics Overview: A Data Lakehouse Date: May 3rd Time: 6:30 –…
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If you need a convincing reason to use Edge Dev, user profiles might be it. I need access to various Power BI tenants that I need to log in. Or, your organization might have multiple Power BI tenants, such as a byproduct of acquisitions. Previously, I had to either use multiple browsers, open an incognito session (the caveat is that you can't have two incognito…
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Power BI has made tremendous strides in features solidifying its position as a BI leader and increasing the feature distance over the competition (see latest Gartner report here). And rightfully so, considering that it's much more than a visualization tool. However, you might find its advanced presentation capabilities still lagging. During a current BI assessment for a large mortgage company, the executive sponsor who have…
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Microsoft awarded me FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect - Power BI! This prestigious recognition is conferred by the Power Platform product engineering team for consistently exhibiting deep architecture expertise and creating high quality solutions for customers during project engagements. I'm one of the 33 individuals worldwide who must meet the following criteria: Must have a minimum of 2 years of experience with Power BI and a minimum…
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Scenario: You deploy a model to a Power BI workspace. You assign users to Members and Viewers roles. Everyone is happy. You later added a row-level security role and republish the model. Admins, Contributors and Members continue to view reports connected to the dataset as usual. However, Viewers report an error like the one shown below (didn't Microsoft do an outstanding job explaining what went…
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Scenario: You've created a beautiful, wide-open Tabular model. You use USERELATIONSHIP() to switch relationships on and off. Everything works and everyone is pleased. Then RLS sneaks in, such as when external users need access, and you must secure on some dimension table. You create a role, specify a row filter, test the role, and get greeted with: The UseRelationship() and CrossFilter() functions may not be…
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Amidst the pandemic, the Houston Health Department (HHD) had another predicament to tackle. With lab results accumulating rapidly at one million cases per month, the vendor system they used for capturing and analyzing COVID data couldn't keep up. The SQL Server database had large tables with normalized name-value pairs for each question and answer received from the patient, and for each investigation result. Read our…
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