I’m delighted to announce I’ll give a session at the next PASS BA webinar marathon. The topic of this marathon is Data Driven Storytelling and Data Discovery. My session will focus on working with Power BI Desktop: getting data in, cleaning it, creating a model and visualizing the data. It will be mostly demos and just […]
Webinar – Executing, Configuring and Scheduling SSIS 2016 Packages
I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com at March 30th. It’s a sponsored webinar, meaning there will also be a vendor to talk about JAMS, a scheduler that “runs, monitors and audits critical processes across a diverse array of servers and business applications”. Anyway, the title is Executing, Configuring and Scheduling SQL Server 2016 Integration Services […]
Not An Administrator For Analysis Services Tabular
A couple of weeks back I installed SQL Server 2016 on my personal machine, including SSAS Tabular. Yesterday I created a new Tabular model project in SQL Server Data Tools. When I had to choose where to locate the model – integrated or a server workspace – I got the nice error message saying I […]
Updates to the Power BI course
Recently I published an open-source course/workshop to learn Power BI Desktop. Fellow MVP Dan English (blog | twitter) gave me the excellent feedback that IMDB actually doesn’t like people scraping their website for data. Furthermore, the OMDB API appears to have fallen almost out of funds and is thus not as reliable as I thought. Refreshing […]
Open Source Power BI Desktop Workshop
I’ve created a free, open-source workshop to teach people the capabilities and features of Power BI Desktop. I was inspired to do this by Brent Ozar, who also created a free open-source course How to Think Like the Engine. If you haven’t checked out that course, make sure you do because it’s great fun and […]
Missing Checkbox for Security Filter in Power BI Desktop
Just a quick blog post so that other people don’t waste 15 minutes of their life looking for a missing checkbox. I was implementing security using roles in a Power BI Desktop model. I had defined the role along with its filter on top of a many 2 many relationship. The relationship between the fact […]
Dynamically Changing Shapes in Power BI – Alternatives
NOTE: the DAX presented in this blog post is written in my locale (nl-BE). This means that semicolons are used in the functions and lists instead of commas. Also, we use the comma as the decimal seperator. 0.95 (in the US) is 0,95 in my locale. A couple of well placed search and replaces should […]
Dynamically Changing Shapes in Power BI
UPDATE: I also published a blog post using a DAX only approach. Check it out here. Recently someone had a question if it was possible to change the color of a shape depending on the value of a measure. Imagine for example a dashboard with the picture of a database server. If up-time is good […]
Microsoft Data Platform MVP Award
I’m very pleased, humbled, surprised and overall gleeful to announce I’m awarded the Microsoft Data Platform MVP 2017 Award. This is a great honor and I’m grateful for all the support I’ve received of Microsoft, my peers and the SQL Server community over the past years. I’d like to take this moment to thank you […]
Speaking at Techorama 2017
I’m delighted to announce that I’m selected as a speaker for the Techorama event. Techorama is a developer congress focusing (but not limited to) Microsoft technologies. This year, the event is even bigger as they have merged with the IT Pro event ITPROceed (where I have spoken 3 times in the last years). So I’m […]