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Extract Numerical Data Points from an Image

Today Gartner released the 2019 magic quadrant for Business Intelligence. As expected (by me at least), Microsoft is continuing its trail blazing and now has a clear lead over Tableau in both ability to execute and completeness of vision. I thought it would be interesting to…

1 March 2019

Data & Analysis

Power BI Data Privacy Levels And Cloud /Web-Based Data Sources Or Dataflows

I have already blogged in great detail many times about Power BI/Power Query data privacy settings (see this series for example) but there’s always something new to learn. Recently I was asked a question by Ian Eckert about how Power BI handles data privacy for cloud…

23 January 2019

Data & Analysis

Data Privacy Settings And Data Refresh Performance In Excel And Power BI

I have known for a long time that data privacy checks can have an impact on the performance of data refresh in Power BI and Excel, but on a recent performance tuning engagement I had the chance to observe just how much of a difference changing…

2 January 2019

Data & Analysis

Credentials, Data Privacy Settings And Data Sources In Power Query/Power BI

Recently I’ve been doing some more investigations into how data privacy settings work in Power BI. This is a subject I’ve blogged about in great detail already in a series of posts last year, but this functionality is so complex that there is always more to…

20 December 2018

Data & Analysis

The CredentialQuery Option For Web.Contents() In Power BI Custom Data Connectors

There’s a new, as yet undocumented, option for the Web.Contents() M function that is only available for custom data connectors and not in Power BI Desktop: CredentialQueryOption. It does the same thing as the Query option, but it stops the values you are passing to the…

14 November 2018

Data & Analysis

Data Profiling in Power BI

Today Microsoft released the October 2018 update of Power BI Desktop. One of the fabulous new features that has been released is the ability to get a visual profile of your data in Power Query BEFORE you load the data. This new feature is typical of…

23 October 2018

Data & Analysis

Can You Use Power Query In Power BI Or Excel To Write Data To A Data Source?

It is, technically, possible to use Power Query (in either Power BI or Excel) to write data to a data source; for example, here’s an old post I wrote showing how to run a UPDATE statement to update data in a table in SQL Server. Bron…

16 October 2018