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) […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Nested Display Folders in SSAS
Recently it was announced that Power BI would now support the SSAS display folders in “exploration mode”. Exploration mode is a fancy term for a live connection to an SSAS cube or model. Anyway, great news, as it drastically improved usability of Power BI Desktop when browsing cubes. On the same day, I also found […]
Happy Holidays
It’s the time of the year again: the obligatory “how was the past year” blog post, combined with “what do I plan to do next year?”. I plan on keeping it quite short 🙂 2015 was awesome because: I got to speak on ITPROceed and SQLServerDays again, and it was great as always Power BI […]
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 […]