by Chris Webb | Oct 18, 2020 | Chris Webb
On the Power BI team we want our customers to be successful whichever data source they’re using – not just the Microsoft ones. Recently I had the pleasure of recording a webinar on the subject of best practices for using Power BI with Snowflake, along with Craig...
by Chris Webb | Oct 11, 2020 | Chris Webb
Most of the time I’ve spent looking at Power Query Query Diagnostics data, I’ve been looking at data for a single query. Over the past few days though I’ve spent some time investigating what this data shows for all the queries that are executed for a single dataset...
by Chris Webb | Oct 4, 2020 | Chris Webb
If you’re familiar with the topic of query folding in Power Query, you’ll know that the View Native Query right-click option in the Applied Steps pane of the Power Query Editor can be used to show the native query that is run against the data source. You may also know...
by Chris Webb | Sep 28, 2020 | Chris Webb
As a Power BI developer I know how Power Query makes it easy to get data from web sources, but I also know there are limits to what it can do. I can get data from tables on web pages, I can get data from web services, but when confronted with a website where you have...
by Chris Webb | Sep 26, 2020 | Chris Webb
Are you really, really good at designing Power BI solutions? If so, you should nominate yourself for Microsoft’s Power BI FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect (FTRSA) distinction! Here’s the official description of what this is: FastTrack Recognized Solution...
by Chris Webb | Sep 20, 2020 | Chris Webb
When you’re faced with a slow Power BI report it’s very easy to assume that the problem is something to do with the dataset, how it’s modelled and how the DAX has been written, and then disappear down a rabbit hole of Marco-and-Alberto videos trying to shave...
