There’s a new update out of Power BI Desktop (May 2016), but at the time of writing there’s no official announcement yet. However, two great new features have been spotted by Chris Webb: @marcorus a few things – quick calculations (only seen % shares) and conditional formatting in tables for example — Christopher Webb (@Technitrain) […]
Month: May 2016
Reblog: Unexpected result with the File System Task
SQLKover update: nowadays you would probably use package parameters to pass the directory value. However, they still have a default value, so this still applies. Recently I ran across a forum thread where someone encountered an unexpected result when creating a directory using the File System Task in Integration Services. He used a variable to […]
Speaking about Power BI @ ITPROceed 2016
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be giving a session at this year’s ITPROceed. For those who don’t know this event, it’s an IT Pro focused event in Belgium about Microsoft Technologies. And what’s even better, it’s totally free. My session will be a general overview of what you can do with Power BI right […]
SSRS and MDX: Think about Cell Properties
I stumbled across a small MDX performance tuning trick when using SSRS reports (or any other client tool where you can edit the MDX). When you create the MDX query using the designer, it will append some cell properties at the end of the query. Basically it’s just metadata about the cells of the result […]