Power BI Publisher for Excel
It’s been awhile that lots of Excel users were wondering if there is a way to include their Excel elements into Power BI dashboards. With Power BI Publisher for Excel you’re now able to publish...
View ArticleHow to Disable Custom Visual in Power BI Desktop Model
Custom visuals are awesome. It’s easy to import them to Power BI Desktop model and start using them. But, what if you decide to remove them from your model? Is there a way to disable an imported custom...
View ArticleHow to Define A Measure Table in Power BI Desktop
In this post I show you a simple trick to make your Power BI model more organised and more readable. I call it creating a “Measure Table”. Let me explain. The story is that I was working on a model...
View ArticleRole Playing Dimensions in Power BI
In this post I want to explain how to handle role playing dimensions in Power BI. I wrote an article awhile ago regarding role playing dimensions in SSAS Tabular which is valid for Power BI Desktop....
View ArticlePower BI and Google Maps API (Address Lookup)
In this post I explain how to use Google Maps APIs to retrieve useful information out of Google Maps. The use case scenario could be getting address, postal code, etc. from existing latitude and...
View ArticlePower BI Desktop Query Parameters, Part 1
One of the coolest features added to the new release of Power BI Desktop (April 2016) is “Query Parameters”. With Query Parameters we can now create parameters in Power BI Desktop and use them in...
View ArticlePower BI Desktop Query Parameters, Part2 – Dynamic Data Masking and Query...
As I promised in my earlier post, in this article I show you how to leverage your Power BI Desktop model using Query Parameters on top of SQL Server 2016 Dynamic Data Masking (DDM). I also explain very...
View ArticlePower BI Synonyms, Take Q&A Experience to the Next Level
In April 2016 a bunch of fantastic features added to Power BI Desktop. Some of these features like Query Parameters, Power BI Templates and new drill action to see records quickly grasped my attention....
View ArticleHow to Download SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition for Free
A while ago Microsoft decided to provide Developer edition of SQL Server 2014 and 2016 for free. So we should be able to download SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition for free legitimately. If you search...
View ArticleConnect to Power BI Desktop Model from Excel and SSMS
Power BI Desktop is a fantastic report authoring tool. I have lots of experience with Tableau as well and I can say, man, Power BI is growing very quickly. Lots of awesome ideas have been added to...
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