What credentials do you use to refresh your Power BI semantic models from Azure SQL SKUs, such as Azure SQL Database. Probably your credentials or a designated Entra account? Both are not ideal for a variety of reasons, including requiring a password. More advanced users might be using service principals, which are more secure but require secret renewal after a maximum of 24 months, which…
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Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, December 1st at 18:30 ET. I'll show you how to Fabric DirectLake semantic models can help you tackle long refresh cycles and scalability headaches. And your humble correspondent will walk you through some of the latest Power BI and Fabric enhancements. Improving will sponsor the meeting. For more details and sign…
Read article Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, November 3rd at 18:30 ET. Jason Romans (Microsoft MVP) will show you how to use Semantic Link Labs to troubleshoot unreliable reports and semantic models. And your humble correspondent will walk you through some of the latest Power BI and Fabric enhancements. Improving will sponsor the meeting. For more details and…
Read article Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Thursday, October 9th (note that we are meeting on Thursday for this meeting) at 18:30 ET. Sukhwant (Senior Product Manager, Microsoft) will explain why you should consider Fabric SQL databases. And your humble correspondent will walk you through some of the latest Power BI and Fabric enhancements. For more details and sign…
Read article Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, September 8th at 18:30 ET. Jeff Levy (Data Architect @ Protiviti) will show us how to implement Azure DevOps for data engineering projects in Microsoft Fabric. And your humble correspondent will walk you through some of the latest Power BI and Fabric enhancements. For more details and sign up, visit our group…
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I had the privilege to participate in the early preview program of the new TMDL View in Power BI Desktop which is currently in public preview in the latest January release of Power BI Desktop. Without reiterating what was said in the announcement, I’d like to mention three main benefits of this feature: Ability to access the entire model metadata - This includes features don’t…
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I conducted recently an assessment for a client facing memory pressure in Power BI Premium. You know these pesky out of memory errors when refreshing a biggish dataset. They started with P1, moved to P2, and now are on P3 but still more memory is needed to satisfy the memory appetite of full refresh. The runtime memory footprint of the problematic semantic model with imported…
Read article Atlanta BI fans, please join us online for our next meeting on Monday, December 2nd at 5PM ET (please note the change to our usual meeting time to accommodate the presenter). Rui Romano (Product Manager at Microsoft) will discuss how the new TMDL language for Power BI models can unlock new scenarios that previously weren't possible. For more details and sign up, visit our group…
Read article Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, November 4th at 6:30 PM ET. Stacey Jones (Principal Data & AI Cross-Solution Architect at Microsoft) and Elayne Jones (Solutions Architect at Coca-Cola Bottlers Sales and Services) will explore the AI and Copilot capabilities within Microsoft Fabrics. And I'll help you catch up on Microsoft BI latest. I will sponsor the…
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Role-playing dimensions are a popular business requirement but yet challenging to implement in Power BI (and Tabular) due to a long-standing limitation that two tables can’t be joined multiple times with active relationships. Declarative relationships are both a blessing and a curse and, in this case, we are confronted with their limitations. Had Power BI allowed multiple relationships, the user must be prompted which path…
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