Level: Beginners Today Microsoft announced a great new feature that allows you to direct connect FROM Excel TO Power BI and not the other way around. This simple change really streamlines the integration experience between Excel and the Power BI Service, and makes Power BI even more like you own […]
This article is retired, but kept for posterity. The current version of this article can be found here. Level: Beginners I have learnt a lot about sharing Power BI content over the last year since Power BI hit the main stream. A lot of my learning has come from trial […]
Level: Intermediate I spent a lot of last week helping to configure Power BI in preparation for go live for a client. One of the important things to do when designing a Power BI solution is to make sure you have a good design for your user security access. Today […]
I have had the idea of power query self referencing tables in my head for over a year, and today was the day that I tested a few scenarios until I got a working solution. Let me start with a problem description and then my solution. Add Comments to a […]
Level: Beginners Microsoft recently announced a new conditional column feature in Power Query (Power BI Desktop version) that warrants a blog post. This feature makes the process of creating banded columns much easier for the average user. I blogged about banded columns using DAX here, and now there is this […]
Level: Intermediate One of the many excellent sessions I attend this week at the PASS Business Analytics Conference in San Jose was a session titled “Get Latest Insights by connecting your data using Power BI Content Packs and PBI Gateways”. The title was interesting but the content presented by Dimah Zaidalkilani […]
Level: Intermediate As regular readers of my blog would know, I enjoy helping people on forums who need help with DAX, Power Query or Power BI. Recently I have answered quite a few questions for people that could benefit from a DAX “Banding” solution and hence I have decided to […]
Microsoft announced another awesome Power BI feature recently. This Power BI Analyze in Excel feature was requested by Avi Singh from PowerPivotPro.com and was heavily supported as a requirement by the community. You can read more about how you can influence future releases at the bottom of this post. But […]
Level: Advanced, but explained in detail so everyone can understand There is a lot to learn in DAX if you want to be a ninja. A couple of the more complex and important things to learn and understand are filter propagation and context transition. It is not so much that […]
Level: Intermediate I had an interesting problem with a client last week where I built a data model to calculate rebates payable to customers based on their sales turnover. There were a few challenges that I am going to cover below, including: There needs to be a user friendly way […]
Level: Beginners All of the learning examples in my books Supercharge Power BI and Supercharge Excel are built on an Adventure Works database that has a single data table. But Power Pivot is a very capable tool for building reports that combine multiple data tables. Although it is very capable, […]
DAX Studio is a fabulous free tool that allows you to directly query your Power Pivot/Power BI data models. It is not immediately obvious (particularly to beginners) exactly how using DAX Studio can add value. This blog post today is a simple reference to help anyone that uses Power Pivot get […]
Level: Beginners In this post today I am providing a small extract from one of the chapters in my book Learn to Write DAX. It has been just over 2 months since the global release of the book. As at this time of writing, I have 6 customer reviews on […]
Level: Beginners It is now possible to share your (public) reports from PowerBI.com with anyone over the internet for free (currently a free preview), without the need to manage licencing, logins etc (see demo below). Microsoft has been promising this feature for a couple of months now and the speed […]
I was recently a presenter at the PASS BA Webinar Marathon – Dec ‘15. This was an online Webinar with a total of 7 separate presentations from various experts across the industry. My topic was “Moving from Excel to Power BI – A Business Analyst’s Perspective”. The session was recorded […]
I’m really excited to share with you a new Excel Add-in that was authored by Bertrand d’Arbonneau and has recently been made available via SQLBI.com The Add-in called Power Pivot Utilities combines a number of existing tools into a single new tool bar in Excel as shown below (Excel 2013 […]
Edit: Feb 2017. Microsoft has released an update that solves the problem described in this article. This article still has learning value however you should also take a look at the announcement from Microsoft here https://blogs.office.com/2017/02/08/january-2017-updates-for-get-transform-in-excel-2016-and-the-power-query-add-in/ There are many ways to combine data from multiple files into a single file/table in […]
This is the second of a series of articles where I explain different methods of combining data from multiple files into a single workbook/table. In the first article I described how to use a function to combine data from identical Excel Workbooks into a single file using Power Query. Next […]
I have blogged about these concepts before but thought there was value in creating a couple of clear blog posts covering step by step instructions on 2 good ways to combine multiple Excel Workbooks with Power Query. Both of these approaches require that the Excel files are identical in structure […]
I had an interesting problem this week with a client that uses a 445 calendar. The problem is that they had some monthly budget figures that they wanted to track against actual sales on a weekly basis. We agreed to do a straight line split of the budget into weeks […]
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