by Chris Webb | Mar 19, 2019 | Chris Webb
A few weeks ago at SQLBits I had a demo of a very interesting new tool for Power BI users called Power BI Sentinel. The website, with all the details, is here: Home This post first appeared at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wordpress/Cpjz/~3/63Dqo0OGfwY/. The author...
by Chris Webb | Mar 16, 2019 | Chris Webb
Following on from my last post on attaching manually-created Common Data Model folders in Power BI dataflows, I was asked whether defining relationships between entities in the model.json file of the CDM folder results in relationships being created between tables in...
by Chris Webb | Mar 13, 2019 | Chris Webb
Most of the focus on Power BI dataflows so far has been on the use of Power Query Online to load data from external data sources. However, when you create a dataflow you also have the option to attach an existing Common Data Model (CDM) folder stored in Azure Data...
by Chris Webb | Mar 11, 2019 | Chris Webb
I generally try to avoid writing book reviews here, but the fact that there are so few books available on Power Query and M means that I’m making an exception for “Collect, Combine and Transform Data using Power Query in Excel and Power BI” by Gil Raviv. The first...
by Chris Webb | Mar 7, 2019 | Chris Webb
SQLBits is one of the best Microsoft data platform conferences around, and last week’s event in Manchester was particularly good. As usual, videos of almost all of the sessions are available for everyone to view for free online (no registration required) here:...
by Chris Webb | Mar 1, 2019 | Chris Webb
With the release of CTP 2.3 of SQL Server 2019 today there was big news for Analysis Services Tabular developers: Calculation Groups. You can read all about them in detail in this blog post: What’s new for SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services CTP 2.3 This post first...
