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When to Scale-Up or Scale-Out with Azure Analysis Services
Of all the new features and capabilities currently available with Azure Analysis Services, dynamic scaling up/down and in/out are my 2 favorite. Scaling Up refers to adding more (CPU and/or memory)...
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Enriching your Power BI Solutions with Metadata
Ever looked at a Power BI report visual and wondered what the logic was behind a calculation? In most cases, your options are limited to… asking the report author checking the report documentation...
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Implementing AS Partition Processing via Azure Functions
Last year, Christian Wade released an open source solution to automate partition management and tabular model processing. As someone who’s spent a lot of time setting up similar solutions for clients...
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Implementing As Partition Processing via Azure Functions–Part 2
In the previous blog post we walked through how to implement the As Partition Processing (open-source) solution using Azure Functions which generated some good questions and discussions. As a result,...
View ArticleProgrammatically Deploy Power BI Reports to Power BI Report Server
Quick post today showing how to programmatically deploy a Power BI report to an PBI On-Premise Report Server. Over the past few years, I’ve had the pleasure of helping a client build a...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts on Power BI and the Future
This blog has been very silent over the past few months as all of my attention and free time was spent working with a small startup focused on delivering a commercial solution based on Power BI. I’ll...
View ArticleIDERA ACE – Class of 2020!
Just a few weeks ago, I was accepted into the IDERA ACE program class of 2020! Oh, never heard of it? Well, let me clue you in… IDERA ACEs are active community members who have shown a passion for...
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Do all visuals on a Power BI report generate queries?
This is a question that has come up a few times over the past few months from several clients and so I figured it’d make a good quick blog post that can easily be pointed at to save time. I encourage...
View ArticleDAX Variables and IF/SWITCH Statements
Earlier this week, a client came to me with a DAX error that I’d not seen before… Query (12, 4) Calculation error in measure <insert measure name>: The True/False expression does not specify a...
View ArticlePower BI Time-Intelligence: Beyond the Basics
Quick note to the Power BI developers looking to up their DAX game… I’ll be presenting a new session – Power BI Time-Intelligence: Beyond the Basics – to the following user groups… Baltimore SQL...
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