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My Journey as Microsoft MVP is Coming to an End

As you may know, Microsoft has an MVP Programme where it acknowledges and rewards community leaders for their subject matter expertise and contribution to the community. There are many benefits of being an MVP including the recognition (leading to people understanding that you must be doing something right if Microsoft […]

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Directquery Connection

Data Modelling for DirectQuery

In my last article I introduced the three different connectivity modes that are available for Power BI to fetch data from a source, with a specific focus on when and where to use DirectQuery connections.  In this article I am going to go deeper and introduce the modelling aspects of a DirectQuery […]

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Connection Mode

Import vs DirectQuery in Power BI

Over the last few months, I have received a number of very similar questions at either one of our Live Training courses or from a student attending one of our Ask Anything Power BI Q&A sessions.  These questions all revolved around DirectQuery and were often specifically about performance issues or […]

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Paginated Reports Button

Build a Power BI Paginated Report Online

Back in April 2022, I wrote an article called Poor Man’s Paginated Reports. That article covered an easy way to create a paginated report without having to learn how to use paginated report builder. Sometime since then, Microsoft has released the ability to create a simple paginate report online inside […]

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PowerPoint Integration with Power BI Visuals

Microsoft has just announced the general availability (GA) of the integration of Power BI with PowerPoint. I have previously blogged about this feature here => Power BI Live Embedding. With the recent GA announcement comes a significant improvement over the public preview version. Power BI Single Visual Embedding in PowerPoint […]

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Excel

Major Update to Power Pivot

I have been blogging about DAX since before Power BI was a product; I started back in 2014 and Power BI was first released as generally available in mid 2015.  Until about 2017, the only way you could build a commercially viable production reporting tool that used DAX was via […]

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