Power BI Report Accessibility Checklist
In many cases, some small changes can go a long way in making your Power BI reports more accessible for...
2018-06-07
1,218 reads
Data Savvy
Choosing a Color Palette For Your Power BI Report
Color is a powerful attribute in data visualization. In a good visualization, it can focus attention and enhance meaning and...
2018-06-05 (first published: 2018-05-27)
2,660 reads
Thoughts and Lessons Learned From A Power BI Embedded POC
I worked on a Power BI embedded POC where a report with an in-memory Power BI model as the dataset...
2018-05-02 (first published: 2018-04-25)
3,218 reads
Please join me for my PASS Summit Pre-Con with Melissa Coates
I’m excited to announce that I’m joining forces with Melissa Coates (aka SQL Chick) to do a full-day PASS Summit...
2018-04-12
674 reads
Four Easy Things You Can Do Now To Make Your Power BI Reports More Accessible
Accessibility is often overlooked or ignored when it comes to reporting and data visualization. I think there are two reasons...
2018-03-09
1,060 reads
Power BI Screen Reader Accessibility
I recently wrote a post on the BlueGranite blog called Improving Screen Reader Accessibility in Power BI Reports. It contains...
2018-02-13 (first published: 2018-02-06)
2,037 reads
Ten Ways To Help Your BI Consultant Be Successful
I’ve been working in the field of business intelligence for over ten years, as a consultant for over five years....
2018-02-12 (first published: 2018-01-30)
2,771 reads
Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 5: Affordances
Affordances are a general design concept that comes from physical product design but can be applied to visual design. I...
2017-12-28
502 reads
Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 4: The Squint Test
Data visualization should be iterative. You should get a good initial draft put together and then check to make sure...
2017-12-22
799 reads
Design Concepts for Better Power BI Reports Part 3: Gestalt Principles
The Gestalt principles of visual perception describe how humans tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes to...
2017-12-18
724 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...
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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