Intro: In my younger days, I enjoyed playing computer games and in particular, maze-based games. So for the latest addition to my series of DAX based games, I thought I would have a crack at building a game in Power BI that allowed the user to appear to control a character through a maze to Read more about Fun with DAX – A-Maze-ing DAX[…]
To build a robust BI system, you need to cater for errors and handle errors carefully. If you build a reporting solution that the refresh of that fails everytime an error occurs, it is not a robust system. Errors can happen by many reasons, In this post, I’ll show you a way to catch potential Read more about Exception Reporting in Power BI: Catch the Error Rows in Power Query[…]
You read it right, you don’t have to write DAX. If you are calculating a year to date, running total, or every rolling average, you may be able to do it without writing a single line of DAX code. How this is possible? With Quick Measures. Quick measures are an easy way to create DAX Read more about Quick Measures in Power BI: You don’t have to write DAX!?[…]
Sum and Sumx are functions that often founded to be misleading for many Power BI users. As both functions are doing the aggregation, it seems a bit confusing what is the actual difference between these two. There are many blog posts and articles about each function. I always explain the difference with simple demos in Read more about SUM vs SUMX; What is the Difference of the two DAX Functions in Power BI?[…]
In a Power BI model, relationships are important for passing filters, filter propagates through relationships. However, sometimes you create the relationship between two tables, and the relationship is a dashed line. In this post, I’ll explain to you everything you need to know about a dashed relationship, or as it called Inactive relationship. I will Read more about UseRelationship or Role-Playing Dimension; Dealing with Inactive Relationships in Power BI[…]
Microsoft Machine Learning Technologies Overview Artificial intelligence and specifically Machine learning can bring lots of benefit to the business owner. Many businesses using Microsoft data platform tools for many years. Microsoft employed machine learning in creating their products such as Xbox, Bing Search and so forth for a while. However, from 2014 they start to Read more about OVERVIEW ON MICROSOFT MACHINE LEARNING TOOLS[…]
We are excited to share you the November 2018 version of Power BI helper with many interesting features. With this version, you get the list of all pages and list of all bookmarks. You can find all bookmarks related to a page. You can also through this version find out the data columns that consume Read more about Find the Most Expensive Columns for Performance Tuning, Bookmarks, and more with Power BI Helper Version November 2018[…]
If you have worked with Power BI for some time, you know that there are two types of the Date dimensions; Custom or built-in/Default. It is always confusing for people, that which date dimension is good to use, and what is the difference between these two approaches. Also based on the selection of the type Read more about Power BI Date Dimension; Default or Custom? Is It Confusing?[…]
After a long wait, in the October 2018 release of Power BI Desktop we saw the fuzzy matching feature added finally. Yay! Have you ever wanted to match two tables together but not on exact matches, but also on a threshold of similarity? if your answer to this question is yes, then this feature is Read more about Fuzzy Matching in Power BI and Power Query; Match based on Similarity Threshold[…]
I’ve been honored and had the opportunity to have an interview with some great minds in Ignite 2018. Just to mention a few; it was the discussion about all new Power BI and AI features announced at Microsoft Ignite 2018 conference. In this post, you will see the link to all my 14 interviews of Read more about Ignite 2018 Interviews by Reza Rad; Power BI and AI[…]