Busy schedule in last few months with lots of conferences and courses didn’t allowed me to publish 3rd version earlier. and now, here you go; 3rd edition of Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star book is available to download. this edition ended up with being 1075 pages! This book is already downloaded more than Read more about Edition 3 of Free Book: Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star – 1075 Pages![…]
M is the powerful language behind the scene of Power Query. Any transformation you apply will be written in M language. For many, M looks like a scary language. In this post I like to explain a bit of basics of M. Not mentioning any functions. Mainly I want to explain to you how the Read more about Basics of M: Power Query Formula Language[…]
New REST API of Power BI is revolutionary. In addition to embedding content in Power BI, ability to refresh data set from API, it also gives you many functions to work with Gateways and Data Sources. With this API, you can set up new data sources, clone data sets, check the credentials of a data Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 5 – Data Source Management[…]
Power BI REST API is not just for embedding content or getting list of dashboards and reports. It also has many functions to work with data sets, gateways, and data sources. As one of the many exciting features of that; you can easily refresh a data set from an application. you can refresh it as Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 4 – Refresh Data Set[…]
In the part 1, you learned how to register an application to be able to interact with Power BI service and Azure environment. In the part 2, you learned how the authentication process works and how you can get the access token. In this part, I’m going to explain what is the process of embedding Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 3 – Embed Content[…]
In the part 1, you learned how to register an application to be able to interact with Power BI service and Azure environment. In this part, I’m going to explain what is the process involved after that in order to authenticate through your application into Azure Active Directory. This step is important step before doing Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 2 – Authenticate[…]
Power BI Embedded, which I have written about it previously, brings the power of Power BI into your application. Power BI Embedded Recently had major changes. If you remember from my previous post, there were many limitations in the type of content you can embed into your application and the ways of interacting with it, Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 1 – Register your App[…]
Power BI Desktop file stores many metadata information in it, one of the most important piece of information stored there is Power Query M scripts. It is always easy to open a PBIX file and realize the queries in Query Editor Window. However, if you have many queries and you want a way to get Read more about Exposing M Code and Query Metadata of Power BI (PBIX) File[…]
There were many announcements earlier this month about Power BI. One of them which was and still is the breaking news of all is Power BI Premium. Many of you already know that it is a new licensing plan, but how it works? Is this a licensing plan that works for you or not? What Read more about Power BI Premium. Is It For You or Not?[…]
I have written about 4 other types of map visual with Power BI before. In this post I want to explain how ArcGIS visual work as a map visual. There are some specific features in this visual which is simple to use, but will give you a lot of insight. With this type of map Read more about ArcGIS Map in Power BI; Simple, But Insightful[…]