I uploaded my slidedeck from the ITPROceed event to Onedrive. For the abstract, see the blog post Speaking about Power BI @ ITPROceed 2016.
Category: Power BI
My first SQL Server 2016 POC
Very, very recently I did my first Proof Of Concept (POC) with SQL Server 2016. At an actual client of course 🙂 One of the first things I noticed, is that installing SQL Server 2016 is quite fast. Installing the database engine, SSIS, SSAS and SSRS is just a matter of minutes. In contrast with […]
Conditional Formatting and Quick Calcs in Power BI Desktop
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) […]
Dynamic Security in Power BI
UPDATE: the feature has changed since its introduction. For more information, see the update at the bottom of the post. In case you haven’t noticed, Power BI added a new feature in preview mode: row level security (RLS). This blog post describes how you  can use this feature to implement dynamic security. In other words, the […]
Power BI Service error: “This visual has unrecognized fields”
UPDATE: IT SEEMS THE BUG HAS NOW BEEN FIXED. THREE HOORAYS FOR THE POWER BI TEAM! Recently I stumbled across a quite annoying error in the Power BI service. I uploaded two working reports from Power BI Desktop to the cloud service. Each report connects to its own cube and both cubes are in the […]
Power BI Confusion
Just a quick post on some Power BI material that I believe should reach as many people as possible. I get the notion there is a lot of confusion about what is possible in Power BI v2 and which features are supported in the free and in the paying version. (I gave a session on Power BI […]
Thoughts on Power Query and SSIS
Recently I received a very interesting question on Twitter from Jeremy (blog | twitter): @jmarx definitely yes — Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) July 10, 2015 His question was a response on my earlier blog post What’s the deal with Excel and SSIS?, where I remarked that Power Query will rescue the day since SSIS has a lot of […]