If you have used SSRS, you know that paginated reports are very customizable, and you can make almost any property expression-based. Power BI is yet to deliver expression-based properties to change settings based on runtime condition, such as to change the font style based on the actual value or user selection. Currently, there are two places where you can use a DAX measure for expression-based…
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MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on December 3th, Tuesday at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. I will discuss Power BI dataflows. A3 will sponsor the event. For more details, visit our group page and don't forget to RSVP (use the RSVP survey on the main page) if you're planning to attend. Presentation: Understanding Power BI…
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This blog is an update of my previous blog "Common Data Service for Analytics: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly". Things have changed in the past 6 months. The Common Data Service for Analytics is no more. It got superseded by Power BI dataflows, which Microsoft officially introduced at the PASS Summit last week. Think of dataflows as "Power Query in the Cloud". Dataflows is…
Read article MS BI fans, join us for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on October 30th, Tuesday at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. Neal Waterstreet will tackle the important and pervasive issue of bad data quality. ZAP BI will sponsor the event. And your humble correspondent will introduce you to Power BI Home and data profiling. For more details, visit our…
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Want to know what Power BI features are in the works and when they will be released? My "Power BI Features Report" showed you how to find what features were released over time so it's retrospective. On the other hand, Business Applications Release Notes are forward looking. For example, the October release notes for BI go all the way to March 2019. The release notes…
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You know it and I know it. Data quality is a BIG problem that reduces the business value of BI. ETL practitioners will probably recall that SSIS includes a comprehensive Data Profiling Task but it is somewhat difficult to set up, especially if you wanted to profile multiple tables. It saves the results in an xml file and then you could use the Data Profile…
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Want to know what Power BI features were released in a certain time period? Check out the Power BI Features report. After some delay, you should see the report embedded on the page but please be patient. If no patience, you can also download the pbix file from the same page. Then, use the slicer on the first page to filter your date range. In…
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Semantics relates to discovering the meaning of the message behind the words. In the context of data and BI, semantics represents the user's perspective of data: how the end user views the data to derive knowledge from it. A modeler translates the machine-friendly database structures and terminology into a user-friendly semantic model that describes the business problems to be solved. To address this need, you…
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As Microsoft announced in the "Distribute insights across the organization with Microsoft Power BI" presentation (forward to the Nikhil Gaekwad part starting at the 32 min), they've been releasing the following set of features to improve the end user experience in Power BI Service: Home (not yet available) – Personalized landing page Personal bookmarks (not yet available) – End users can create their own bookmarks Persistent…
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Question: What's the maximum dataset size Power BI can support? Answer: As of now (Sep 1, 2018), the maximum dataset size that Power BI Pro can support is 1 GB. The maximum dataset size with Power BI Premium and Power BI Embedded is 10 GB but it depends on the SKU purchased. Power BI Premium Plan Power BI Embedded Plan Max Dataset Size and Memory P1…
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