Generating Unicode Characters in Power Query
You may have used the UNICHAR() function in DAX to return Unicode characters in DAX measures. If you haven’t yet read Chris Webb’s blog post on the topic, I...
2022-06-30
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Meagan Longoria
Log in to Power BI Desktop as an External (B2B) User
I noticed Adam Saxton post a tip on the Guy in a Cube YouTube channel about publishing reports from Power BI Desktop for external users. According to Microsoft Docs...
2022-06-30 (first published: 2022-06-22)
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Calling the Intercom API with Power Query and Refreshing in the Power BI Service
I needed to pull some user data for an app that uses Intercom. While I will probably import the data using Data Factory or a function in the long...
2022-03-30 (first published: 2022-03-22)
206 reads
Check if File Exists Before Deploying SQL Script to Azure SQL Managed Instance in Azure Release Pipelines
I have been in Azure DevOps pipelines a lot recently, helping clients set up automated releases. Many of my clients are not in a place where automated build and...
2022-03-09 (first published: 2022-02-22)
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Looking at Activity Queue Times from Azure Data Factory with Log Analytics
I’ve been working on a project to populate an Operational Data Store using Azure Data Factory (ADF). We have been seeking to tune our pipelines so we can import...
2022-01-17 (first published: 2022-01-06)
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When You Can’t Change the Connected Git Repo on ADF
I was working on an Azure Data Factory project for a client who is new to ADF, and there was a miscommunication about the new Git Repo to be...
2022-01-10 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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Copying large files from SharePoint Online
I recently worked on a project where we needed to copy some large files from a specified library in SharePoint Online. In that library, there were several layers of...
2021-12-20 (first published: 2021-12-07)
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What are those new buttons under tab order in Power BI?
If you’ve visited the Tab order area of the Selection Pane in Power BI in the last couple of months, you might have noticed some new buttons. The hover...
2021-12-06 (first published: 2021-11-29)
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Power BI, Maps, and Publish to Web
October 2021 is mapping month over at Workout Wednesday for Power BI. As part of our challenges, we build a sample report and use the Publish to Web functionality...
2021-10-25 (first published: 2021-10-14)
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Connect Excel to a Power BI Dataset in a Premium Workspace with a B2B User
Power BI offers the ability for users who have access to a dataset in the Power BI service (PowerBI.com) to connect to the dataset using Excel. Normally, this feature...
2021-10-13 (first published: 2021-09-30)
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Blogs
Scary Scalar Functions - Part Two: Performance
By Zikato
Scary Scalar Functions series overview Part One: Parallelism Part Two: Performance Foreword In the second part of this...
Goal Progress for June 2022
By Steve Jones
I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress...
Using Sessionize for Your User Group – Part 2
Now that your CFS has been setup it’s time to get the word out...
Forums
Help Transposing SQL Table Pt3
Hello Community, Can someone please help transpose a table. The table currently looks like...
PowerApps and SQL security
PowerApps have a problem with their security model and wonder if I could solve...
Identify Process
Hi Is it possible thru query or other means which sql process are running...
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