I have written another blog article previously about how to set up your Power BI to get data from a file in OneDrive for Business folder without needing gateway. That was a popular blog article, but I got questions about what if I want to get data from a folder in OneDrive for business but Read more about Power BI Get Data from Multiple Files in a Folder on OneDrive for Business, No Gateway Needed[…]
The job function, market, structure, and role definition in the world of Business Intelligence had big changes throughout the past few years. The big change from traditional BI to self-service BI is not just about tools, but also about roles, and jobs, and organizational structure. In this post, I am sharing my views on this Read more about What Happens to Your Job With the Revolution of Power BI and Self-Service BI?[…]
I have written previously a blog article that I explained in detail how I fetch the image URL from a website using Power Query. That method, however, is what I call a bit of a techie way of doing it because you have to look at the HTML code of the page. There is an Read more about Get the Image URL in Power BI Using Power Query Get Table from Example[…]
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[…]
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 am excited about this blog post, this is based on the New service in Cognitive Service name “Anomaly Detection” which is now in Preview. I recorded a video about how it works in cognitive service https://youtu.be/7ZOtZDbn6gM. However, I am going to talk about how to use it in Power BI. In this post first, a Read more about Time Series Anomaly Detection in Power BI using Cognitive Service and Power Query[…]
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[…]
You can concatenate a list of values in Power BI in two ways; Using Power BI DAX functions such as ConcatenateX, or through Power Query. For some scenarios, there is an advantage in using Power Query to do the concatenation. In this blog article, I’ll explain how this works. If you like to learn more Read more about Pre Concatenate List of Values in Power BI using Power Query[…]