Doing Power BI the Right Way: 10. Designing and Managing Large Datasets
Part of the the series: Doing Power BI the Right Way Later in this post, you will find a 27 minute…
Power BI Data Modeling Sessions
This is going to be a very busy week for presentations Iam presenting with five sessions scheduled on the topic…
Drill-through from Power BI to Paginated Report – Report Recipe #4
Navigation between reports is the hallmark of an interactive reporting solution, enabling the ability to drill-through and see relevant details…
Creating a Paginated Report Template – Report Recipe #3
This series of posts introduces the recipes in the Paginated Report Recipes eBook. In recipe #3, “Reusable Report Template”, Kathi…
Paginated Reports Recipe eBook – first two recipes
First and most importantly, I want to acknowledge and thank these contributing authors who wrote report recipes and working samples…
Paginated Reports eBook Finally Released
At last, the second edition of “SQL Server Report Recipes” written by Paul Turley, Robert Bruckner and a host of…
Doing Power BI the Right Way: 4. Power Query design best practices
Part of the the series: Doing Power BI the Right Way (link) Although my professional focus is building enterprise-scale BI solutions,…
Doing Power BI the Right Way: 4. Power Query in Dataflows or Power BI Desktop
Part of the the series: Doing Power BI the Right Way (link) Power BI, more than any other Microsoft product in…
A First Look at Gen 2 Composite Models with Live Power BI Datasets
About three years ago when the data model development engineers from the Power BI product team told me they were…
Power BI: The Week in Graphics
If you’re like me right now, you need a distraction. I got started on a new blog and tweet about…
Doing Power BI the Right Way: 5. Data Modeling Essentials & Best Practices (2 of 2)
Part of the the series: Doing Power BI the Right Way (link) Data modeling 201-301 – continued from part 1…
Doing Power BI the Right Way: 5. Data Modeling Essentials & Best Practices (1 of 2)
Part of the the series: Doing Power BI the Right Way (link) Data Modeling 101: part 1 (more advanced techniques…
Composite Models Gen 2 and DirectQuery over Power BI Datasets
My wife bought me a nice telescope for Christmas. I’ve wanted one since I was a kid. We opened gifts…
Power BI Expert Resources
Where to go for best practice advice for Power BI: The Data Gods One of the most common questions I…
Doing Power BI the Right Way: 7. Planning for separation – data models and reports
Back in the day, when we created BI solutions, reports and data models were separate. If you created a cube or Tabular model with Analysis Services, it was developed with Visual Studio and deployed to a server. Reports could be authored and deployed to the report server, separately. Now, with Power BI Desktop, you author your data model and report in the same development space and then deploy the whole kit and kaboodle to the service at once.