DAX Logic and Blanks
A while back I was chatting with Shannon Lindsay on Twitter. She shares lots of useful Power BI tips there. She shared her syntax tip of the & operator...
2020-11-03 (first published: 2020-10-29)
313 reads
Data Savvy
Stop Letting Accessibility Be Optional In Your Power BI Reports
We don’t talk about inclusive design nearly enough in the Power BI community. I was trying to recall the last time I saw a demo report (from Microsoft or...
2020-09-24 (first published: 2020-09-17)
320 reads
Fun with Power BI and Color Math
I recently published my color contrast report in the Power BI Data Stories Gallery. It allows you to enter two hex color values and then see the color contrast...
2020-09-01 (first published: 2020-08-20)
420 reads
I’m Speaking at Virtual PASS Summit 2020
PASS Summit has gone virtual this year, but that isn’t keeping PASS from delivering a good lineup of speakers and activities. I’m excited to be presenting a pre-con and...
2020-08-06
40 reads
Refreshing a Power BI Dataset in Azure Data Factory
I recently needed to ensure that a Power BI imported dataset would be refreshed after populating data in my data mart. I was already using Azure Data Factory to...
2020-07-21 (first published: 2020-07-09)
428 reads
Power BI Data Viz Makeover: From Drab to Fab
On July 11 at 3pm MDT, Rob Farley and I will be hosting a webinar on report design in Power BI. We will take a report that does not...
2020-06-18
17 reads
Data Visualization, Context, and Domain Expertise
I recently posted a graph to twitter and asked people to explain it. Let’s look at the graph. The graph is from Fitbit. It shows the number of steps...
2020-06-18 (first published: 2020-06-04)
434 reads
An Updated Version of the Power BI Enterprise Deployment Whitepaper is Available
A new version of the Microsoft whitepaper “Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment” is now available. Once again, Melissa Coates (b|t) and Chris Webb (b|t) are the authors. I...
2020-06-16 (first published: 2020-05-28)
315 reads
Power Up: Exploring the Power BI Ecosystem, May 27-28
Next week I’m speaking at at the Dynamic Communities Power Up event titled “Exploring the Power BI Ecosystem“. It takes place on May 27 & 28, 2020. This exciting...
2020-05-21
27 reads
Check Out My MBAS Presentation on Power BI Report Accessibility
I had the privilege of working with Tessa Hurr (PM on the Power BI team) on a presentation for the 2020 Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS) about five features...
2020-05-14
26 reads
Blogs
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
Forums
Let's Talk Certifications
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Force join by longest possible choice
Title pretty much says it. I want to join to a table that has...
Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers