To download the Session slides click below link : A-Journey To Power BI My session God turn out in SQL Saturday Vienna An Interesting Keynote speech by Mark Souza Have fun the day after SQL Saturday around Vienna with other Speakers I have Talked about Power BI in SQL Saturday Vienna , Special Read more about SQL Saturday Vienna 2015- A Journey to Power BI[…]
It is really good news that Satya Nadella announced Power BI service will be available for free. I believe this is to compete with BI tools in the market and Microsoft seeks for wider range of customers. From my point of view this is a great change, because as a BI Consultant I’ve worked with Read more about Power BI Now Available For Free![…]
Today I’ve faced an issue; when the Power BI Admin Center does not work I want to configure and set up Data Management Gateway. Data Management Gateways is a service that install on your machine or any on premises server, and allow cloud services (such as Power BI or Azure Data Factory) to connect to Read more about Configure Data Management Gateway from Azure Portal[…]
Have you heard about Power BI? Do you know Power BI Components? Have you worked with Power Query Formula language called M? Do you know what are strong capabilities of this language and tool? Have you build PowerPivot models with strong DAX expressions and deployed in Power BI site? Do you know different types of Read more about Power BI Pre-Con; from Rookie to Rockstar[…]
Thanks to all attendees of my session in TechDays 2014 Hong Kong about Power BI Data Visualization with Power Map and Power View. Here is session Title, Description, and presentation file; Title: Power BI Data Visualization with Power Map and Power View Description: Power BI is the most recent BI technology and tool provided by Read more about Presentation Materials: TechDays Hong Kong 2014, Power BI Data Visualization with Power Map and Power View[…]
Thanks to all attendees of my session in TechDays 2014 Hong Kong about Advanced Data Transformations with Power Query. Here is session Title, Description, and presentation file; Title: Advanced Data Transformations with Power Query Description: Power Query is the self-service data consolidation tool of the Power BI embedded in Excel. Power Query has ability to Read more about Presentation Materials: TechDays Hong Kong 2014, Advanced Data Transformation with Power Query[…]
In previous posts I’ve mentioned that Power Query is a self-service ETL tool. One of the most fundamental functions of an ETL tool is ability to schedule ETL run. In the other words you would require to populate data from operational data stores on a schedule basis to feed into your Data Model. Power Query Read more about Scheduling Power Query ETL Runs[…]
In previous post I’ve generated a date dimension with Power Query M script. In this post I will add public holidays to the date dimension from live websites. This post only considers New Zealand public holidays, but once you’ve learned how to deal with data, you can apply similar transformations with small changes to any Read more about Data Dimension in Power Query – Public Holidays Fetched Live[…]
There are many date dimensions scripts on the internet, and even there are some scripts for the Power Query (Thanks to Chris Webb for his very early version of the date dimension, and also to Matt Masson for his version of Date Dimension). I’ve built a date dimension from scratch (not a copy or Read more about Script to Generate Date Dimension with Power Query M – With Financial Columns[…]
One of the most powerful features of M is that you can write custom functions to re-use part of your code. Custom functions can be single or multiple liner, they will be written in Lambda style syntax. In this post you will learn how to write functions and invoke them in M. Custom functions and Read more about Writing Custom Functions in Power Query M[…]