by Chris Webb | Sep 22, 2019 | Chris Webb
Just a quick post to let you know that an interview I recorded for the BIFocal Show podcast at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit in Atlanta a few months ago is now available for your listening pleasure: Episode 117 – Interview with Chris Webb This post first...
by Chris Webb | Sep 18, 2019 | Chris Webb
In my last post I showed lots of examples of how Power BI’s new custom format string feature can be used to format numbers. This post, looking at dates and times, will be a bit different for two reasons: there are a lot more useful examples of custom date and time...
by Chris Webb | Sep 11, 2019 | Chris Webb
Now that we can apply custom format strings to fields and measures in Power BI in the September 2019 release, I thought it would be useful to provide some examples of what’s possible with this very flexible new feature because the existing documentation for VBA isn’t...
by Chris Webb | Sep 8, 2019 | Chris Webb
In Shabnam Watson’s recent blog post on a bug she found when trying to create a Live connection from Power BI to Analysis Services she mentioned that the AutoSetDefaultInitialCatalog server property could be used to solve her problem. This piqued my interested because...
by Chris Webb | Sep 1, 2019 | Chris Webb
If you’re a Power BI fan there are three possible answers to the question “Did you know that the second edition of The Definitive Guide To DAX has just been published?”: Answer#1: Yup, I’ve already got my copy! This post first appeared...
by Chris Webb | Aug 25, 2019 | Chris Webb
Users of on-premises Analysis Services will know that most of the useful server properties can be set in SQL Server Management Studio, some (such as MaxIntermediateRowsetSize) can only be set by editing the msmdsrv.ini file. How do you set these properties in Azure...
