Author: Reza Rad

Reza Rad is a Microsoft Regional Director, an Author, Trainer, Speaker and Consultant. He has a BSc in Computer engineering; he has more than 20 years’ experience in data analysis, BI, databases, programming, and development mostly on Microsoft technologies. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP for 12 continuous years (from 2011 till now) for his dedication in Microsoft BI. Reza is an active blogger and co-founder of RADACAD. Reza is also co-founder and co-organizer of Difinity conference in New Zealand, Power BI Summit, and Data Insight Summit. Reza is author of more than 14 books on Microsoft Business Intelligence, most of these books are published under Power BI category. Among these are books such as Power BI DAX Simplified, Pro Power BI Architecture, Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star, Power Query books series, Row-Level Security in Power BI and etc. He is an International Speaker in Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Data Insight Summit, PASS Summit, SQL Saturday and SQL user groups. And He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Reza’s passion is to help you find the best data solution, he is Data enthusiast. His articles on different aspects of technologies, especially on MS BI, can be found on his blog: https://radacad.com/blog.

Power BI Issue Fix: Import from Excel Workbook Contents; Password Protection Failure

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Reza Rad

One of the great features of Power BI Desktop is the ability to import your entire Power Pivot Excel model into it. This is an awesome feature, because you can import the entire model including tables, relationships, calculations, and hierarchies into the Power BI. This is a great migration feature from Excel to Power BI. Read more about Power BI Issue Fix: Import from Excel Workbook Contents; Password Protection Failure[…]

Unleash Security Patterns in Power BI; Webinar Recording and Materials

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Reza Rad

Thanks to all attendees of my Power BI webinar last Friday. I hope you all enjoyed it. I explained a number of the most common row level security patterns in Power BI with some DAX expressions, in this post you will find the description of webinar, recording, and link to all demos and materials. Although Read more about Unleash Security Patterns in Power BI; Webinar Recording and Materials[…]

Export the Entire M Power Query Script from a Power BI File, New Version of Power BI Helper, Search based on Field Description in the Model

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Reza Rad

Previous versions of Power BI Helper had some features related to the visualization part and the modelling part of a Power BI file. This latest release of Power BI helper, can export the entire M or Power Query script into a file or into clipboard. Sometimes, especially when the number of queries in the Power Read more about Export the Entire M Power Query Script from a Power BI File, New Version of Power BI Helper, Search based on Field Description in the Model[…]

Power BI Desktop; Getting Started – Part 1

Posted on January 8, 2018September 22, 2020 by Reza Rad

There are some reasons that I chose Power BI Desktop for the very first demo of this book. Power BI Desktop has three components all in one (Power Query, Power Pivot, and Power View), it can upload directly to Power BI website, and it is a recently released product with many shining features. In this section I Read more about Power BI Desktop; Getting Started – Part 1[…]

List.Accumulate Hidden Gem of Power Query List Functions in Power BI

Posted on December 12, 2017December 16, 2017 by Reza Rad

There are a number of List transformations available in Power Query’s graphical interface. However, the number of functions in the graphical interface is very limited. In this post, I’m going to explain about a function that is really powerful and is not yet listed in the graphical interface. List.Accumulate is a function that loops through Read more about List.Accumulate Hidden Gem of Power Query List Functions in Power BI[…]

Expression Dependency Tree: New Feature of Power BI Helper

Posted on November 29, 2017November 29, 2017 by Reza Rad

I’m excited to share the news with you that we have added a new feature in Power BI Helper; Expression Tree. Expression Tree will expand the tree of expression for a Measure or calculated column, you can see what other measures are used to create this expression, and where other measures, calculated columns, or even Read more about Expression Dependency Tree: New Feature of Power BI Helper[…]

Dynamic Row Level Security with Organizational Hierarchy Power BI

Posted on November 24, 2017 by Reza Rad

In previous posts, I covered some methods of Dynamic Row Level Security including Row Level Security user based, With Manager Level Access, and also with User and Profiles as a many to many relationships. In this post, I’m going to cover another common scenario for row level security; Organizational hierarchy for security. Through organizational hierarchy Read more about Dynamic Row Level Security with Organizational Hierarchy Power BI[…]

Dynamic Row Level Security with Profiles and Users in Power BI : Many-to-Many Relationship

Posted on November 10, 2017September 11, 2024 by Reza Rad

The Dynamic RLS topic is getting a good response in my blog post, so I intend to write about other types of scenarios that a security would be required. In this post, we are going to look at another type of security which deals with users and their profiles. Sometimes you have a user part Read more about Dynamic Row Level Security with Profiles and Users in Power BI : Many-to-Many Relationship[…]