Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, November 7th, at 6:30 PM ET. Sandeep Pawar will join us again to show us the Power BI data science features and how you can create ML models. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. Presentation: Data Science for Power BI Developers Date: November 7th…
Read articleIn a typical engagement, I create an organizational semantic model(s) and "report packs", such as Sales Report Pack, Inventory Report Pack, etc. These report packs are typically implemented as Power BI reports connected to the semantic model as a shared dataset using the Power BI Datasets connector. Reports sanctioned by IT are published to a dedicated workspace, such as Corporate BI. Departmental reports are deployed…
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A scheduled SSIS job that executes a massive DAX query to an on-prem Tabular server (Power BI can also generate this error) one day decided to throw an error "Source: "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Analysis Services." Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "MdxScript(Model) (2020, 98) Calculation error in measure 'Account Snapshot'[Average utilisation % of all CR active current accounts last 3 months]: The result of a conversion…
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This question pops up over and over. What's the easiest way to embed a Power BI or paginated report hosted in Power BI Service in an internal portal, such as a custom site developed by your team or on-prem SharePoint Server, so internal users can see all reports in one place? Use the "Embed report" feature that will give you a link or iframe code…
Read article Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, October 3rd, at 6:30 PM ET. Tom Huguelet (Lucient) will present a real-world case study and the challenges involved in bringing a Power BI application from initial Excel-based POC to an ISV platform that auto-provisions for new clients, using Power BI Embedded Azure Premium Capacity. For more details…
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Want to display a visual-left hint to perplexed users that explains what your visual is supposed to reveal? Like me, you've probably missed the handy Power BI help tooltips feature that allows you to pop up some helpful text for each visual. On the Format tab of the visualization pane, expand the Help Tooltip section, and enter the text. Then, a question mark glyph shows…
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BI implementation shortcuts are tempting and disguise themselves as cost-effective. True, you can slap a Power BI dataset on top of your data (the cornerstone of self-service BI), but most BI implementations will greatly benefit from a datamart, irrespective of the propaganda of self-service BI vendors. I explain the benefits of datamarts vs Power BI datasets directly on data sources in my blog “Datasets vs.…
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Scenario: You need to rename many columns in a Power BI table. Usually, I rename measure-related columns with "Base" suffix and hide them, and then I create explicit measures. Since renaming one column at the time is no fun, you're looking for an automated solution. Having heard about the Tabular Editor scripting feature, you're tempted to whip out a script like this: You select all…
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Scenario: You use SSIS to load data for on-prem BI solution. As a last step of the ETL pipeline, you want to refresh a Power BI dataset. There's quite a bit of misinformation on the Internet about how to do this, hence this blog. Solution: If the dataset is hosted in Power BI Pro workspace, the only way is to use the Power BI REST…
Read article Please join us online for the next Atlanta MS BI and Power BI Group meeting on Monday, September 12th, at 6:30 PM ET. Shabnam Watson (Microsoft MVP) will discuss how to reduce the dataset refresh time with incremental refresh policies and how to implement tables with hybrid storage. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. Presentation: Incremental Refresh and Hybrid Tables in…
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