Data & Analysis

Power Query, Power BI And The “Allow Data Preview To Download In The Background” Option

Recently I was asked by a customer to do some tuning on an Excel workbook with a lot of Power Query queries in it. Although all of the data used in the queries was coming from tables in the workbook itself and the data volumes were…

16 December 2016

Data & Analysis

Pushing Data From Excel To Power BI Using Streaming Datasets

One Power BI feature that almost passed me by (because it was released in August while I was on holiday) was the ability to create streaming datasets in the Power BI web app and push data to them via the Power BI REST API. Bron :…

14 November 2016

Data & Analysis

Nested Variables In DAX

Last week, at the SQL Server Days conference in Belgium, Kasper mentioned in his presentation that it was possible to define variables inside variables in DAX. So, for example, you could define a measure like so: Bron : Chris Webb's BI Blog Lees meer...

2 November 2016

Data & Analysis

How Do I: Use a Company Parameter in Power BI Desktop?

When you use Power BI Desktop (or Power Query) to connect to a Dynamics NAV ODATA feed, the URL you pass looks like this: Bron : Think about IT Lees meer...

21 October 2016

Data & Analysis

Creating Current Day, Week, Month And Year Reports In Power BI Using Bidirectional Cross-Filtering And M

One very common requirement when creating a Power BI report is the ability to apply a filter for the current day, week, month, quarter or year. There are several ways of implementing this: you could add relative date columns to your Date table as I show…

13 June 2016

Data & Analysis

Creating M Functions From Parameterised Queries In Power BI

Query parameters are, in my opinion, one of the most important features added to Power BI recently. The official blog post describing how to use them is great (read it if you haven’t done so already) but it misses out one other cool new feature that…

24 May 2016

Data & Analysis

Thoughts On SandDance And Power BI

After SandDance was announced at the Microsoft Data Insights Summit a few weeks ago I had a quick play with it, thought to myself that it looked like it it would provide a few more cool data visualisation options, and then almost forgot about it. More…

9 May 2016