005: Stacking it up
The ability to use Dataflows to collate your data and spread the load on your production or report servers is …
Year: 2020
Performance Enhancing Tools
Power BI Continuous Improvement cycle invariably has an element that looks at improving the performance of your queries. DAX can …
Is it time to call time on Visual Studio?
It’s definitely an emotive topic this one. Visual Studio does a lot of what Power BI Desktop does (in the …
Data Processing; why?
Power BI uses Tabular Data Models, these are models that are optimised in a very different way to traditional database …
Data set 004: It never ends
Power BI is a platform that leads you into Continuous Improvement, but you have to let your mindset chance to …
Power BI’s not so dirty secret
When this feature first came out in 2018 it was a complete game changer. It wasn’t until 2019 when data …
DAX – Not as easy as it looks
Learning DAX has some real hurdles to overcome, here is some real sage advice. https://sqlbi.com are a great source of …
Mobility is critical
Power BI mobile reporting is a baked-in component of the platform. Power BI apps are available for Android and iOS. …
Data set 004 – Sorting it all out
The second thing that you come across in Power BI when you start after the “What do I do with …
Microsoft Course – Power BI Developer in a Day
So while I have delivered a number of training courses in Power BI, both custom and ones developed by Microsoft …