by Chris Webb | Jan 20, 2020 | Chris Webb
Very occasionally you may find that a report that is slow to render – but still renders successfully – in Power BI Desktop shows the error “Visual has exceeded the available resources” for some visuals when published to the Power BI Service: Clicking on “See details”...
by Chris Webb | Jan 13, 2020 | Chris Webb
When the new “Refresh a dataset” action for Power Automate (formerly Flow) was released last year I couldn’t help thinking there must be something really cool you could do with it – I just didn’t know what. There are lots of great resources explaining the basics (see...
by Chris Webb | Jan 6, 2020 | Chris Webb
Following on from the series of posts I wrote last month (starting here) about testing the performance of Power BI reports in the browser, I would now like to highlight one possible cause of slow report rendering performance: the over-use of custom visuals. Before we...
by Chris Webb | Dec 30, 2019 | Chris Webb
Every year, on the anniversary of the first-ever post on this blog, I write a post summarising my thoughts on what’s happening in the world of Microsoft BI and what I’m up to professionally. This year has seen bigger changes than most: in June I closed down my...
by Chris Webb | Dec 23, 2019 | Chris Webb
One new feature that was introduced in the December 2019 release of Power BI Desktop, but which wasn’t mentioned in the release blog post, is the “Diagnose Step” button on the Tools tab of the Power Query Editor ribbon: As you might have guessed, it’s closely related...
by Chris Webb | Dec 16, 2019 | Chris Webb
In part 1 of this series I talked about why you might want to test the performance of your Power BI report in the browser; in part 2 I showed how you could test report performance in the browser; and in this blog post I’ll walk through an example of a report that is...
