by Chris Webb | Apr 21, 2024 | Chris Webb
It’s time for another short post on the free books that various authors have been kind enough to send me over the last few months. Full disclosure: these aren’t reviews as such, they’re more like free publicity in return for the free books, and I don’t pretend to be...
by Chris Webb | Apr 14, 2024 | Chris Webb
There are a couple of nice new features to do with table joins (or merges as they are known in M) and query folding in Power Query in the April release of Power BI Desktop that I want to highlight. Anti Joins now fold This post first appeared...
by Chris Webb | Apr 7, 2024 | Chris Webb
The built-in mapping functionality in Power BI paginated reports is fairly basic. However the integration of Power Query into Power BI paginated reports gives you an interesting new way of creating maps in paginated reports: you can call the Azure Maps API using Power...
by Chris Webb | Mar 31, 2024 | Chris Webb
By far the most exciting announcement for me this week was the new release of Power BI Report Builder that has Power Query built in, allowing you to connect to far more data sources in paginated reports than you ever could before. There’s a very detailed blog post and...
by Chris Webb | Mar 24, 2024 | Chris Webb
I recently took part in a webinar with Denny Lee, Liping Huang and Marius Panga from Databricks on the subject of best practices for using Power BI on Databricks. You can view the recording on LinkedIn here:...
by Chris Webb | Mar 17, 2024 | Chris Webb
There’s a lot of excitement about Copilot in Power BI and in Fabric as a whole. The number one question I’m asked about Copilot by customers is “How much does it cost?” and indeed there have been two posts on the Fabric blog here and here attempting to answer this...
