by Jason Cockington | May 29, 2023 | Excelerator BI
Over the last few months, I have received a number of very similar questions at either one of our Live Training courses or from a student attending one of our Ask Anything Power BI Q&A sessions. These questions all revolved around DirectQuery and were often...
by Matt Allington | Apr 13, 2023 | Excelerator BI
On 12th April 2023, Iman and I hosted Miguel Myers as our special guest at the Sydney Power BI User Group. Miguel is a visualisation guru from Microsoft and has worked there for many years. He has recently been assigned as the Product Manager for Visualisations in...
by Matt Allington | Mar 31, 2023 | Excelerator BI
Back in April 2022, I wrote an article called Poor Man’s Paginated Reports. That article covered an easy way to create a paginated report without having to learn how to use paginated report builder. Sometime since then, Microsoft has released the ability to create a...
by Matt Allington | Mar 14, 2023 | Excelerator BI
I do a lot of Power BI model and report development; maybe you do too. There’s nothing worse than spending an hour or so developing your model only to have something go wrong and you lose your work. Things that can go wrong include: Your PC/App crashes. Power BI does...
by Matt Allington | Mar 7, 2023 | Excelerator BI
Microsoft has just announced the general availability (GA) of the integration of Power BI with PowerPoint. I have previously blogged about this feature here => Power BI Live Embedding. With the recent GA announcement comes a significant improvement over the public...
by Matt Allington | Nov 30, 2022 | Excelerator BI
The Power BI Matrix visual is similar to an Excel Pivot table, however there are quite a few limitations in the Matrix. In the Power BI Matrix below I have put the product categories on Rows, Calendar Year on Columns and the measure [Total Sales] on Values. At this...
