Over the last week of December 2019, I’ve had a bit of time to play with some free available datasets over the internet. One of them was the SQL Saturday data which I built a Power BI report for it, and another one is the Microsoft Regional Director‘s data. Let’s see what I built for Read more about Microsoft Regional Director’s Power BI Report[…]
If you don’t have a Power BI Premium capacity license, then you are limited to refresh your dataflows up to eight times a day, with the frequency of 30 minutes. The good news for you is that you have a way to do unlimited refreshes and with whatever frequency you like using Power Platform Dataflows. Read more about Refresh Power BI Queries Through Power Platform Dataflows: Unlimited Times with Any Frequency[…]
If you used an excel file in a local source (or even OneDrive for Business, but sourced locally), you need to do one extra step to make your query refreshable without the need to the gateway. Here in this blog post, I’ll explain an easy way to do that change. If you want to learn Read more about Change Excel Source in Power BI to OneDrive for Business – No Gateway Needed[…]
The Power BI 2020 Salary survey was popular enough to get some interesting results. In this post, I am sharing the result of that survey (which is filled by the public) as a Power BI report. The report gives you an overall idea of how much the minimum, maximum, and average salary should be based Read more about What should be your Salary in 2020 if you work with Power BI?[…]
December 2019 is a major update in Power BI Helper. We believe this is the biggest update we have done so far. The list of updates is big. To name a few, now we have pages, visuals and bookmarks metadata available, visual comparer, visualization tree, the reverse dependency tree, DMV execution page, and dependant calculations Read more about Power BI Helper December 2019 Feature Summary[…]
I use Power BI for analyzing any data! and recently realized that there is no public report about SQL Saturdays around the world, hence, I build this report. This report is using live data from SQL Saturday website. What is SQL Saturday If you don’t know what SQL Saturday is, here is some information: SQL Read more about Analyzing PASS SQL Saturday data using Power BI[…]
Are you underpaid? or you are getting paid in the market range? If you are looking for a job, what range of salary you should be looking for? The Salary survey and the report is helpful to answer these questions. The salary survey, is a form that everyone fills, and from the result of that, Read more about Power BI Salary Survey and Report 2020[…]
Have you ever had a scenario that you need to use part of your calculation multiple times? You might go and create a table or column for that and then re-use it. However, there are times that you just need that calculation to be re-used multiple times within one place. DAX variables can help you Read more about DAX Variables: Better Readability, Consistency, and Performance in Power BI Calculations[…]
The total value that you see in a table is not actually SUM of all values in that column, it is, in fact, the calculation, when there is no filter. This, however, might not be the calculation that we want sometimes. we might want this value to be the sum of values of that column Read more about Calculate Totals in Power BI: Using Iterators in DAX[…]
I have previously written about how to calculate the same period last year calculation and compare this year’s values with the last year’s values. However, sometimes, you don’t yet have the full year, especially for the current year. You might want to compare this year’s value with the last year’s value up until the same Read more about Same Period Last Year to Date DAX Calculation in Power BI[…]