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Bookmarks and Buttons: Making Power BI Charts Even More Interactive

In the previous post, I explained a usage of bookmarks and buttons in Power BI, which was for clearing all slicers. Buttons and bookmarks are the gold combination in Power BI. You can do wide range of creative activities with this combination. In this post, I will show you some other usages of buttons and Read more about Bookmarks and Buttons: Making Power BI Charts Even More Interactive[…]

Fun with DAX – Compressing Numeric Sequences to Text

A recent post on the Power BI community website asked if it was possible to compress a group of numbers into text that described the sequential ranges contained within the numbers. This might be a group of values such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13:  (note there are gaps) with the Read more about Fun with DAX – Compressing Numeric Sequences to Text[…]

Create Custom Visual with R and JSON- Part3

In this post, I am going to show you how we can create most comprehensive Custom visual. In the last two posts published in July 2017 (post1 and Post 2). Some notes before I am going to complete the last two posts. 1- We able to declare some custom input like X, Y, Legen and Read more about Create Custom Visual with R and JSON- Part3[…]

Clear All Slicers in Power BI; A Bookmark Story

Using bookmarks for clearing all slicers in Power BI is not a a new function, I have been using it for many months, and advising many people to do it that way. However, I still get a lot of questions in my presentations about how to do that. That is why I ended up writing Read more about Clear All Slicers in Power BI; A Bookmark Story[…]

Road Map to use Microsoft ML tools

I normally work with most of the Microsoft tools for the aim of doing machine learning. I came up with a roadmap that shows what option for machine learning we have with Microsoft tools in Data Platform. this roadmap is not completed yet, I need to update it one later with some tools such azure Read more about Road Map to use Microsoft ML tools[…]

R Chart into SSRS (Show Chart in SSRS)-Part 3

In the last post, I have shown how you able to install an external package like ggplot2 in ML services and also you see how we can use data in SQL Server to create a chart in R studio. In this post, I am going to show you how to create a chart in SQL Read more about R Chart into SSRS (Show Chart in SSRS)-Part 3[…]

R Chart into SSRS (ggplot2 package in SQL Server 2017)-Part 2

“In the last post, you have seen how we can create a chart by importing data from SQL Server 2017. By doing this, we have a reliable code for drawing chart. Now, we sure our codes work fine, we can put the codes in SQL Server 2017. In this post, I am going to show Read more about R Chart into SSRS (ggplot2 package in SQL Server 2017)-Part 2[…]

Power BI Architecture Guidelines

Implementing a Power BI solution is not just about developing reports, creating a data model, or using visuals. Power BI, like any other technologies, can be used in a correct, or incorrect way. Any technology can be used more effective if it harnesses the right architecture. A right architecture can be achieved after a requirement Read more about Power BI Architecture Guidelines[…]

R Chart into SSRS (get data from SQL and create ggplot chart in R)-Part 1

In this and next post, I am going to show you how to connect to SQL Server to get data from there, then create a table chart using ggplot2 package inside SQL Server 2017 and then show the chart in SSRS. there are multiple steps for that we need to follow Get data and create Read more about R Chart into SSRS (get data from SQL and create ggplot chart in R)-Part 1[…]

SQL Server Reporting Services Integration with Power BI

Power BI Report Server can host Power BI reports on-premises, and you’ve learned about it in the previous post. There is another integration between SQL Server Reporting Services and Power BI service; this integration brings tiles from SSRS reports pinned to a Power BI dashboard with scheduled updates from SQL Server agent. The integration of Read more about SQL Server Reporting Services Integration with Power BI[…]