Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added as a guest user in another tenant. This happens quite a lot when you’re a consultant and your client can’t create a new user in their own tenant, so they add the account of your own company as a guest instead. […]
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Speaking at SQLSaturday Vienna 2021
I’m thrilled to announce I’ve been selected to speak at SQLSaturday Vienna. Actually, it’s on Friday 15th of January, so don’t get fooled by the name. I’m bringing the session Self-service BI – Why Data Modelling Is Still Important, which is a beginner level talk about why you should pay attention to the data model […]
SUMX returns incorrect results with duplicates
Okay, the title of this blog post could also have been “SUMX returns unexpected results with duplicates”. The results only seem incorrect because an incorrect assumption might have been made. Let’s dive into the issue with an example. The Problem Suppose we have employees entering timesheet data. An employee can work on multiple projects in […]
Where’s the Trend Line in Power BI Desktop?
A quick blog post on finding where the trend line is hiding in Power BI Desktop. Docs will state it is in the analytics pane for certain types of visualization. However, it doesn’t always show up: (I really resisted the urge to post another “Dude, where is my car” image) So why did the trend […]
Power BI Announcements Summary
It was a crazy week for Power BI. There were quite a lot of announcements, so I’ll try to wrap them up in one single blog post and share my thoughts as well. POWER BI DESKTOP Again an amazing release (May 2017). Noticeable features are: Measures on top of live SSAS Tabular connections! I’ve been […]
Hands-On Data Analysis With Power BI Desktop at PASS BA Marathon
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 […]
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 […]