Power BI Takeover–Webinar Recording and Q&A
Last week I did a little experimental webinar that was outside our (Pragmatic Works) norm. Instead of our traditional 1...
2016-05-19 (first published: 2016-05-10)
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2015-12-15
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DirectQuery in Power BI Desktop
In the latest Power BI Desktop a new Preview features was released that now allows you to connect using DirectQuery...
2015-11-06
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Power BI Desktop: A Guide for Excel Users
Today Microsoft officially released the new development tool for Power BI called Power BI Desktop. First of all let me...
2015-07-24
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Excel Services in Power BI
**Information current as of 7/22/2015**
There’s lots of exciting news this week with Power BI so expect several short blog posts...
2015-07-27 (first published: 2015-07-22)
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Creating a Date Dimension with Power Query
A date dimension or table can be extremely important when working on a Power BI project, or BI projects in...
2015-06-16
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Creating a SQL 2016 CTP2 Virtual Machine in Azure
With the CTP2 of SQL Server 2016 now released you may be eager to try it out. One of the...
2015-05-28
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Power BI with Azure SQL Database
**Information is current as of 5/21/2015**
Recently Azure SQL Database was added as a new connection to the Power BI Preview....
2015-06-01 (first published: 2015-05-21)
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Power Query – Controlling M Query Functions with User Driven Parameters
Have you ever had a user run a query against one of your largest tables only for them to immediately...
2015-04-03
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Preparing a Technical Session Part 3: Writing an Abstract
So you’ve come up with a great idea for a session and now you have to translate that idea into...
2015-03-05 (first published: 2015-02-24)
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The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?