If you want to build a reporting solution on SAP (S/4HANA or ECC) or Salesforce data in Fabric and don’t want to build everything from scratch then you should check out Business Process ...

As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

This is going to sound strange, but one of the things I like about tuning Power BI DirectQuery semantic models is that their generally-slower performance and the fact you can see the SQL queries that ...

One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: It can occur with almost any data source and in a wide variety of different circumstances, and for ...

You probably know that semantic models in Power BI can use a fixed amount of memory. This is true of all types of semantic model – Import, Direct Lake and DirectQuery – but it’s not something you ...

One of the most confusing, under-documented and widely-misunderstood features of Power BI and Power Query (or Excel “Get & Transform” or whatever you want to call it) are the data privacy settings. I ...

In the first two parts of this series (see here and here) I showed how Power BI/Power Query/Excel Get & Transform’s data privacy settings can influence whether query folding takes place or even ...

UPDATE April 2019: It is now possible to use DAX expressions such as the ones described in this post directly in the Title property of a visual. See https://powerbi ...

For some reason I haven’t had any free copies of books to review recently; maybe the market for tech books has finally collapsed with AI? Books are still being published though and luckily, as someone ...

When you connect to a relational database like SQL Server in Power BI/Power Query/Excel Get & Transform you have two choices about how to get the data you need: You can choose a table from the ...