by Chris Webb | May 31, 2017 | Chris Webb
In part 1 of this series I showed how the data privacy settings in Excel Power Query/Get & Transform and Power BI could impact the performance of your queries. In this post I’m going to show you how they can stop a query from running at all. Let’s say you have the...
by Rob Collie | May 31, 2017 | PowerPivotPro
Our National Business Gets its First Local Office (Seattle) If you were paying close attention to my article on the role of consulting firms in the self-service BI revolution, you may remember that we operate on a geographically-independent basis. Since… The post...
by Melissa Coates | May 28, 2017 | SQL Chick
This is just a quick tip about displaying columns in the Azure portal. If you’ve not been using this little feature, they can be helpful. Here’s an example of what part of my portal looks like for virtual machines: This post first appeared...
by Matt Allington | May 28, 2017 | Excelerator BI
At the start of May 2017, Microsoft announced that Export to Excel/CSV would no longer be available to Power B Free users, and would not be part of the new Power BI Premium offering either. Today Microsoft announced that it has listened to community feedback and has...
by Gil Raviv | May 27, 2017 | Data Chant
Important Alert for those of you who use Power BI / Excel Power Query to retrieve and analyze Facebook posts, and followed my Facebook work: If you are loading Facebook posts using the method I shared in the past (e.g. here), you may get the following error: This post...