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Error-handling in Power Query
Data is the daily bread-and-butter for any analyst. In order to provide good results you also need good data. Sometimes this data is very well prepared beforehand and you can use it as it is but it is...
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Using Power BI Data Management Gateway on Non-Domain Azure VM
UPDATE AUGUST 2014:There were some changes to the DMG in August 2014. Please refer to my new blog post which addresses the issues with the new version! However, I still recommend you to read this post...
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Using Power BI DMG on Non-Domain Azure VMs – August 2014 Update
In one of my recent posts I explained how to use the Power BI Data Management Gateway to access data hosted in a SQL Server running on an Azure VM. At the time of writing that post the steps to...
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Visualizing SSAS Calculation Dependencies using PowerBI
UPDATE: This does not work for Tabular Models in Compatibility Level 120 or above as they do not expose the calculation dependencies anymore! One of my best practices when designing bigger SQL...
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Running Local R Scripts in Power BI
One of the coolest features of Power BI is that I integrates very well with other tools and also offers a lot of interfaces which can be used to extend this capabilities even further. One of those is...
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Score whole PowerBI DataSets dynamically in Azure ML
One of the most requested features when it comes to Azure ML is and has always been the integration into PowerBI. By now we are still lacking a native connector in PowerBI which would allow us to...
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Storing Images in a PowerBI/Analysis Services Data Models
As some of you probably remember, when PowerPivot was still only available in Excel and Power Query did not yet exist, it was possible to load images from a database (binary column) directly into the...
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Showing OLAP UniqueNames in PowerBI
I just had the request to expose the UniqueNames of an Analysis Services Multidimensional cube in PowerBI. You may ask why I would want to do this and the answer is actually pretty simple: In SSAS MD...
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Using Power BI Desktop Direct Query with Parameters
I frequently work on projects where we have multiple tiers on which our solution is deployed to using continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI / CD) pipelines in Azure DevOps. Once everything...
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Data Virtualization in Microsoft Power BI
Data Virtualization is actually a very new topic to me as I have barely seen it implemented in the real world or at any of my customers. But it becomes more and more interesting when working with big...
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Using Power BI DMG on Non-Domain Azure VMs – August 2014 Update
In one of my recent posts I explained how to use the Power BI Data Management Gateway to access data hosted in a SQL Server running on an Azure VM. At the time of writing that post the steps to...
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Visualizing SSAS Calculation Dependencies using PowerBI
UPDATE: This does not work for Tabular Models in Compatibility Level 120 or above as they do not expose the calculation dependencies anymore! One of my best practices when designing bigger SQL...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Running Local R Scripts in Power BI
One of the coolest features of Power BI is that I integrates very well with other tools and also offers a lot of interfaces which can be used to extend this capabilities even further. One of those is...
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Score whole PowerBI DataSets dynamically in Azure ML
One of the most requested features when it comes to Azure ML is and has always been the integration into PowerBI. By now we are still lacking a native connector in PowerBI which would allow us to...
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Storing Images in a PowerBI/Analysis Services Data Models
As some of you probably remember, when PowerPivot was still only available in Excel and Power Query did not yet exist, it was possible to load images from a database (binary column) directly into the...
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Showing OLAP UniqueNames in PowerBI
I just had the request to expose the UniqueNames of an Analysis Services Multidimensional cube in PowerBI. You may ask why I would want to do this and the answer is actually pretty simple: In SSAS MD...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Using Power BI Desktop Direct Query with Parameters
I frequently work on projects where we have multiple tiers on which our solution is deployed to using continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI / CD) pipelines in Azure DevOps. Once everything...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Data Virtualization in Microsoft Power BI
Data Virtualization is actually a very new topic to me as I have barely seen it implemented in the real world or at any of my customers. But it becomes more and more interesting when working with big...
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Connecting Power BI to Azure Databricks
I work a lot with Azure Databricks and a topic that always comes up is reporting on top of the data that is processed with Databricks. Even though notebooks offer some great ways to visualize data for...
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Reading Delta Lake Tables natively in PowerBI
Working with analytical data platforms and big data on a daily basis, I was quite happy when Microsoft finally announced a connector for Parquet files back in November 2020. The Parquet file format is...
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