The Power BI Enhanced Report Format (PBIR) will soon become the default, and that’s a good thing because it significantly makes git integration easier. You can already enable it in the preview features of Power BI Desktop (also enable PBIP and TMDL to make git integration of the model itself much easier). There’s also a […]
Logged in as a member of an Azure AD Group Error while Deploying DACPAC
Quite a long title for a short blog post 🙂While deploying a DACPAC (from a SQL Server Data Tools Database Project) through Azure Devops, I got the following error message: The user attempting to perform this operation does not have permission as it is currently logged in as a member of an Azure Active Directory […]
Export a Power BI Report that cannot be Downloaded
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be downloaded. Well, it cannot be downloaded from the user interface, that is. Suppose you have a report in a Power BI workspace (Pro, PPU, Fabric, it shouldn’t matter), and they’ve lost the original Power BI Desktop file. You try to download […]
dataMinds Connect 2025 – Slides & Scripts
You can find all the session materials for the presentation “Indexing for Dummies” that was presented at the dataMinds Connect 2025 conference at GitHub.
Cloud Data Driven User Group 2025 – Slides & Scripts
The slidedeck and the SQL scripts for the session Indexing for Dummies can be found on Github.
Secure Logic Apps with OAuth Authorization
I’ve used Logic Apps a couple of times over the past years for simple workflows, like sending an email (still not supported in ADF, booooo), reading a SharePoint List or copying some files from A to B (cheaper than the Copy Data Activity in ADF). When you create a Logic App with an HTTP trigger […]
Free Online Sessions – Building the €100 DWH and Indexing for Dummies
I’m giving two online sessions soon on virtual events that are free to attend. The first one is at Retro Data (20th of September), a new virtual conference focusing on established technology, instead of preview features. My session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform at 10AM UTC+2. The other session is […]
How to Install SQL Server 2025 RC0 on an Azure VM
I wanted to try out the new JSON index which is for the moment only available in the SQL Server 2025 preview version. I know, it’s not even available in Azure SQL DB. Cloud not first? What? I already had a virtual machine in Azure, running SQL Server 2025 CTP 2.0 (which uses a pre-made […]
Power BI dataflow Gen1 needs Gateway to connect to Azure SQL DB
I’m in the progress of migrating some legacy stuff at a client, and in their Power BI environment there are still quite some Power BI dataflows Gen1. I had migrated an Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool to an Azure SQL DB (much cheaper for their volume of data), and in the dev/test environment all dataflows […]