**Information current as of 7/22/2015** There’s lots of exciting news this week with Power BI so expect several short blog posts detailing each. Here’s one
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Creating a Date Dimension with Power Query
A date dimension or table can be extremely important when working on a Power BI project, or BI projects in general for that mater. Here’s
Creating a SQL 2016 CTP2 Virtual Machine in Azure
With the CTP2 of SQL Server 2016 now released you may be eager to try it out. One of the best ways to do this
Power BI with Azure SQL Database
**Information is current as of 5/21/2015** Recently Azure SQL Database was added as a new connection to the Power BI Preview. Read the notes about
Power Query – Controlling M Query Functions with User Driven Parameters
Have you ever had a user run a query against one of your largest tables only for them to immediately filter the results in Excel
Preparing a Technical Session Part 3: Writing an Abstract
So you’ve come up with a great idea for a session and now you have to translate that idea into a thorough abstract that helps
Preparing a Technical Session Part 2: Coming up with a Title
Earlier this month I began a blog series on preparing to do a technical talk. In that first post I discussed some strategies for coming
Getting Started with the Power BI Dashboards Public Preview
If you’re currently an Office 365 customer that is using Power BI sites then you probably found an early Christmas present this morning when you
Preparing a Technical Session Part 1: Picking a Topic
So you’ve decided or perhaps were told to do a technical presentation. If this is something that’s new for you then you may be going
PASS Summit 2014 in Review
I’m finally completely recovered from a great week in Seattle last week for PASS Summit. Now that it’s back to the grind of regular work
Creating a Reporting Services Subscription
Subscriptions are a great feature in Reporting Services that will run a report unattended and deliver it to users either by email or Windows File
Optimizing Power BI Q&A with Synonyms and Phrasing using Cloud Modeling
If you’ve have used or even just seen a demo of Power BI Q&A you’ve likely seen there’s great potential in the feature for even
Analysis Services Partitions
Partitions are a great feature in Analysis Services that allow you to split measure groups in to separate physical files. All measure groups by default
Analysis Services Dynamic Security
Imagine you have a requirement to capture the user accounts that log into your cube and based on their username they will only be permitted
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